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The abstract should summarize the contents of the paper and should contain at least 70 and at most 150 words. It should be set in 9-point font size and should be inset 1.0 cm from the right and left margins. There should be two blank (10-point) lines before and after the abstract. This document is in the required format. Roadmapping, as a strategic planning tool, is attracting increasing applications...
There are many approaches to complex problem solving, depending on the nature of the problem and the people involved in the problem. In this paper, a computational scheme based on meta-synthesis approach is applied to a social problem on exploring some issues about taxis drivers. Firstly, group argumentation environment (GAE) as a computerized tool is used to facilitate expert thinking process (meeting)...
We elicit some critical views on how the applications of information communication technology (ICT) can be approached for people with special educational needs (SEN). The findings, based on a number of concrete case-studies, clearly confirm that, despite of the huge research and developmental effort having been made for advancing ICT applications in education, ICT as a whole is surprisingly lacking...
We present a case study to demonstrate the possibility of discovering complex and interesting latent structures using hierarchical latent class (HLC) models. A similar effort was made earlier ?, but that study involved only small applications with 4 or 5 observed variables. Due to recent progress in algorithm research, it is now possible to learn HLC models with dozens of observed variables. We have...
With a very long history, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has a rich knowledge about human health and disease by its special way. To avoid losing lots of precious knowledge of TCM masters, endeavors have been engaged to keep down those knowledge of TCM masters, such as their growth experiences, effective practical cases toward sickness and typical treating methods and principles. In this paper,...
The Heider theory of cognitive dissonance in social groups, formulated recently in terms of differential equations, is generalized here for the case of asymmetric interpersonal ties. The space of initial states is penetrated by starting the time evolution several times with random initial conditions. Numerical results show the fat-tailed distribution of the time when the dissonance is removed. For...
Two aspects of group decision-making (GDM) have received much attention since its appearance, one is the organizing process of GDM which emphasizes in particular on behavioral science and qualitative analysis, and the other is the weight allocation and meta-synthesis of group preference focusing on the quantificational computation. Despite the abundant researches, the existing solutions do not take...
The functions of neural system, such as learning, recognition and memory, are the emergences from the elementary dynamic mechanisms. To discuss how the dynamic mechanisms in the neurons and synapses work in the function of recognition, a dynamic neural circuit is designed. In the neural circuit, the information is expressed as the inter-spike intervals of the spike trains. The neural circuit with...
The clustering coefficient C of a network, which is a measure of direct connectivity between neighbors of the various nodes, ranges from 0 (for no connectivity) to 1 (for full connectivity). We define extended clustering coefficients C(h) of a small-world network based on nodes that are at distance h from a source node, thus generalizing distance-1 neighborhoods employed in computing the ordinary...
An algorithm to detect invisible relevant persons in a homogeneous social network is studied with computer simulation. The network is effective as a model for contemporary inter-working terrorists where large hub persons do not exist. Absense of large hub persons results in that the observed communication flow is also homogeneous. Clues regarding invisible relevant persons are hardly found in communication...
There are three types of urban size distribution: primate city distribution, rank-size distribution and the medium distribution between them. In order to avoid the defect of data, the paper uses both the population and built-up district area data of above county level cities in Guangdong Province in 2002 and 2004. The results prove that urban size of the urban system in the province follows rank-size...
We define the notion of social rumor in a standard game-theoretic framework, and assume each agent in the rumor game with individual rationality. In this framework, individual agent can interact with its neighboring agents, and word-of-mouth communication is employed during interaction. We introduce a simple and natural strategy-select rule, called behavior update rule (BUR). The BUR uses an accumulative...
A Markov chain model is proposed to describe the evolutionary dynamics of a multi-agent system. Many individual agents search for and exploit resources to get global optimization in an environment without complete information. With the selection acting on agent specialization at the level of system and under the condition of increasing returns, agent specialization emerges as the result of a long-term...
Due to the complexity of economic system, the interactive effects of economic variables or factors on Chinese foreign trade make the prediction of China’s foreign trade extremely difficult. To analyze the relationship between economic variables and foreign trade, this study proposes a novel nonlinear ensemble learning methodology hybridizing nonlinear econometric model and artificial neural networks...
Based on the self-organized dynamical evolutionary of the investors structure, a refined dissipation market model is constructed. Unlike multifractal cascade-like ideas, this model provides a realistic (agent based) description of financial markets and reproduces the same multifractal scaling properties of price changes as the real, which indicate that the self-organized dynamical evolutionary of...
Tactical warfare process, e.g., engagement between opposite forces, is full of unpredictability and platform-level interactions that result great difficulties in performing battlefield entities simulation. In this paper, modeling and simulation based on multi-agent interactions is applied to solve the problem. Based on the analysis on the requirement and countermeasure, the mapping from tactical warfare...
In current epidemic spreading study, continuous system dynamics model and discrete agent model are often regarded as two types of incompatible models. However these two types of models may coexist in large-scale epidemic simulation. A multi-agent based framework for such coexisting is proposed in this paper consisting of location agents with hierarchical structure, participant agents to denote host,...
The aim of this current paper is to research the interactive influence of employee behavior in a given organization. First, we define three kinds of employee behavior called Positive Behavior, Zero Behavior and Negative Behavior. Then, we give a new cellular description of behavior states and define the evolution rules for this cellular automata (CA) model. In order to find what may influence the...
In recent years, whole cell modeling approaches, which combine existing knowledge and machine learning results, have received considerable attention. These approaches are potentially very efficient for simulating and analyzing physiological function of cells. In this work, entity grammar system is proposed as formalism for knowledge representation and multistratgy learning techniques in systems biology...
Credit risk management based on portfolio theory becomes popular in recent Japanese financial industry. But consideration and modeling of chain reaction bankruptcy effect in credit portfolio analysis leave much room for improvement. That is mainly because method for grasping relations among companies with limited data is underdeveloped. In this article, chance discovery method with directed KeyGraph...
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