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In agent based modeling many approaches are used for modeling agents' behavior. They range from relaxing the rationality assumption to considering participants' behavior in experiments. Important suggestions come from qualitative research in particularly from social sciences. We propose an approach to model artificial agents by applying Glaser and Strauss Grounded Theory. As an example, we ran an...
Singing and speaking are important and natural ways in communications for humans to express nonlinguistic and linguistic information. It seems the majority of common people correctly perform and imitate all factors such as pitches and melodies as the same as those achieved by professional singers, while they can correctly vocalize all factors involved in speaking. There is no absolute answer as to...
People now use photo browsing, photo and video slideshow, and illustrated text to share stories about their lives in pictures, however, these popular mediums are far from perfect. Some are not expressive enough for sophisticated storytelling, while others inevitably have a high usage threshold and involve a great deal of efforts. In this paper, we propose a framework for comic-based computer-aided...
In this study, psychological experiments are conducted to investigate harm-avoidance action characteristics in humans in close contact with robotic devices. For the experiments, a situation is created in which the sharp end-effector tip of a robot suddenly approaches the eyes of a facing participant. The avoidance reaction time is defined as the time interval from the beginning of the end-effector...
Entrepreneur is the soul of entrepreneurial activity, and is a core issue of entrepreneurship research. Most of the existing literature investigate "who is the dominant entrepreneur" issue from the individual characteristics and natural resources perspective. This paper is based on the enterprise contractual arrangements perspective, reviews and comparatively analyzes the """"capital...
Recent behavioral and cultural changes driven by the paradigm of mass collaboration highlighted the phenomenon of crowdsourcing as an innovative and promising production model, with positive effects in several business areas. In the field of music, the so called wave of crowds has fostered creative processes where people from anywhere in the world with Internet access can collaborate in different...
The purpose of this paper is to present our original and multidisciplinary approach to study multimodal social-emotional behaviors in children with autism spectrum disorders. Our goal is to conduct fundamental and applied research regarding the reception and production of social signals involved in human interactions. To achieve this aim, we try to understand and model cognitive and multimodal emotional...
Over the past decades, video games have become increasingly popular and complex. Virtual worlds have gone a long way since the first arcades and so have the artificial intelligence (AI) techniques used to control agents in these growing environments. Tasks such as world exploration, constrained pathfinding or team tactics and coordination just to name a few are now default requirements for contemporary...
We present the work on our integrated AI system SCAIL, which is capable of playing a full round of the Real-Time Strategy game Starcraft. Our system makes use of modern AI techniques such as particle filtering, on-line machine learning, drive-based motivation systems and artificial emotions, used to find novel structure in the dynamic playing environment, which is exploited by both high and low-level...
Researchers wishing to analyze Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) situations usually collect interaction traces produced by TEL environments. This paper addresses the issue of sharing, between researchers using TEL environments, of contextualized interaction trace corpora and analysis tools of these corpora. We present a new ontology-based approach called the "proxy approach" to address...
Agriculture is the foundation industry of the national economy. The sustainable development of agriculture and rural social economy is the fundamental guaranty and priority field in the national development. However, the primary problem is how to assess the sustainable development capacity of agriculture and country. In many evaluation methods of the sustainable development, ecological footprint model...
In China, as sustainable development strategy being implemented, quantitative evaluation of environmental load in steel industry has paid been more and more attention. In this paper, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) was applied in evaluation of the steel production process, analyzing the energy and materials consumption of Tangshan stainless steel industry in 2009. Based on inventory analysis, environment...
Stereoscopic content analysis tools are needed in 3D movie production to create exciting 3D effects while maintaining the visual comfort of viewers. Working practices in 3D movie production show that the behavior of human perception plays an important rule for determining the degree of comfort of a 3D content. In this paper, we propose perceptual based methods for stereoscopic content analysis. A...
The relationship between exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF) and health risks is of increasing interest. Although general concern regarding the potential hazards of exposure to an EMF has led to many epidemiological investigations, the effects of EMF exposure on human cells are still controversial. In vitro study, the cellular immune effects of EMF are discussed. We investigated the effects of...
We present a novel learning method using activity grammars capable of learning reusable task components from a reasonably small number of samples under noisy conditions. Our linguistic approach aims to extract the hierarchical structure of activities which can be recursively applied to help recognize unforeseen, more complicated tasks that share the same underlying structures. To achieve this goal,...
In cellular manufacturing, it is essential to focus on human issues such as worker assignment strategies, skill identification, teamwork and communication. In order to analyze the impact of collaborative work in cellular manufacturing, agent model of workers was developed and integrated into the production simulation model. Then, comparative simulation experiments of different collaborative work schemes...
Based on the data about dioxin emission in Jilin province from The Solid Waste Management Center of Jilin Province, the dioxin pollution situation of Jilin province is analyzed in the thesis. And with the data of 2008 as a benchmark, the emission factor estimation method and the prediction model is adopted to estimate the annual emissions of dioxins from 2009 to 2015 in Jilin Province. The composition...
We have built Sim Student, a computational model of learning, and applied it as a peer learner that allows students to learn by teaching. Using Sim Student, we study the effect of tutor learning. In this paper, we discuss an empirical classroom study where we evaluated whether asking students to provide explanations for their tutoring activities facilitates tutor learning -- the self-explanation effect...
Carbon-11 is a positron emitting nuclide that has been used extensively to label compounds destined for molecular targets in the brain. Pittsburgh compound B ([11C]PiB) is a benzothiazole derivative of thioflavin T that is used to image beta-amyloid deposits in Alzheimer's disease patients with Positron Emission Tomography (PET). In this paper we report on the optimization of a fully automated synthesis,...
Human rights at poor working condition is the severe problem in modern manufacturing system. Dirty and hazard surroundings to make IT products or automobile products is also a critical issue in Korea. Moreover, long working hours to do tedious and repetitive operation is against to the human welfare. To solve these problems fundamentally, the industrial robot can be a fine solution. The human-robot...
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