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This paper proposes a coverage scheme for the rapid mapping of an area’s characteristics by a group of mobile and autonomous sensory agents. It is assumed that the agents utilize the wireless medium for communication, and have limited computational, storage and processing capabilities. These wireless sensory agents collaborate among each other in order to optimize their coverage tasks and communications...
This paper studies the distributed resource exploitation problem (DREP) where many resources are distributed across an unknown environment, and several agents move around in it with the goal to exploit/visit the resources. A resource may be anything that can be harvested/sensed/acted upon by an agent when the agent visits that resource’s physical location. A sensory agent (SA) is a mobile and autonomous...
Most models of thought are based on the idea of associative memory: The combination of distinct concepts through their association with each other based on experience. Thus, the pattern of associations in the mind is thought to be a critical factor in determining the ideas - both familiar and unfamiliar - that thought can generate. The Itinerant Dynamics with Emergent Attractors (IDEA) model has been...
The neural basis of creative thinking — indeed of all thinking — remains mysterious. One influential theory by Mednick holds that creative thinking reflects a difference in the associational structure of conceptual representations in the mind. We have previously proposed a neural network model based on itinerant dynamics to model thinking, and used it to show that a small-world, scale-free associational...
The amount of news delivered by the different media in the current environment can be overwhelming. Although the events being reported are factually the same, the ways with which the news is delivered vary with the media sources involved. In many cases, it is difficult to reliably uncover the latent information hidden within the news reports due to the great diversity of topics and the sheer volume...
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