Equilibrium Episode 4

Author : CS Sealey
Publisher : Momentum
ISBN 13 : 1760300705
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Equilibrium: Episode 4 written by CS Sealey and published by Momentum. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mage and newly-made queen is killed, devastating both sides of the war. Unable to persuade her former companions to give up their quest to reclaim her allegiance, Angora has been forced to turn against them and fight for her freedom. However, the fight has proven to be a costly one and Angora has fallen to her death in a deep ravine. In the wake of her demise, both empires are momentarily subdued, mourning the loss of a friend and queen. However, driven by the belief that Angora may have survived, the Ronnesians launch an attack on the Ayon capital of Delseroy in an attempt to free her from the Ayons' clutches. But their attack does not go according to plan, setting in motion a series of events that could spell their doom.

Author : CS Sealey
Publisher : Momentum
ISBN 13 : 1760300683
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Equilibrium: Episode 3 written by CS Sealey and published by Momentum. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ronnesians are forced to answer for their deception, which comes at a deadly price. Lord General Archis Varren, intent on avenging the murder of his predecessor, has traced the assassination contract to the Ronnesian Mayor Challan, one of Queen Sorcha's most valued supporters. Meanwhile, Vrór viciously attacks the Ronnesian capital of Te'Roek, luring Angora back from her self-appointed mission in the north. The two Leikas finally come face to face and their ensuing battle takes them far from the city. But is this fight one Angora can possibly win? In the aftermath of the attack, Varren hatches his plan to cripple Queen Sorcha's power at its very source and the equilibrium begins to tip.

Author : Ralph Bergmann
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 354087805X
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multiagent System Technologies written by Ralph Bergmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-09-19 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the sixth time, the German special interest group on Distributed Arti?cial Intelligence in cooperation with the Steering Committee of MATES organized the German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies – MATES 2008. This conference, which took place during September 23–26, 2008 in Kaisersla- ern, followed a series of successful predecessor conferences in Erfurt (2003, 2004, and 2006), Koblenz (2005), and Leipzig (2007). MATES 2008 was co-located with the 31st German Conference on Arti?cial Intelligence (KI 2008) and was hosted by the University of Kaiserslautern and the German Research Center for Arti?cial Intelligence (DFKI). As in recent years, MATES 2008 provided a distinguished, lively, and - terdisciplinary forum for researchers, users, and developers of agent technology to present and discuss the latest advances of research and development in the area of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. Accordingly, the topics of MATES 2008 covered the whole range: from the theory to applications of agent and multiagent technology. In all, 35 papers were submitted from authors from 11 countries. The accepted 16 full papers included in this proceedings volume and presented as talks at the conference were chosen based on a thorough and highly selective review process. Each paper was reviewed and discussed by at least three Program Committee members and revised according to their c- ments. We believe that the papers of this volume are a representative snapshot of current research and contribute to both theoretical and applied aspects of autonomous agents and multiagent systems.

Author : Stephen G. Walker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135055734
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Role Theory and the Cognitive Architecture of British Appeasement Decisions written by Stephen G. Walker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appeasement is a controversial strategy of conflict management and resolution in world politics. Its reputation is sullied by foreign policy failures ending in war or defeat in which the appeasing state suffers diplomatic and military losses by making costly concessions to other states. Britain’s appeasement policies toward Germany, Italy, and Japan in the 1930s are perhaps the most notorious examples of the patterns of failure associated with this strategy. Is appeasement’s reputation deserved or is this strategy simply misunderstood and perhaps improperly applied? Role theory offers a general theoretical solution to the appeasement puzzle that addresses these questions, and the answers should be interesting to political scientists, historians, students, and practitioners of cooperation and conflict strategies in world politics. As a social-psychological theory of human behavior, role theory has the capacity to unite the insights of various existing theories of agency and structure in the domain of world politics. Demonstrating this claim is the methodological aim in this book and its main contribution to breaking new ground in international relations theory.

Author : Stefan Göbel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540222839
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment written by Stefan Göbel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-06-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interactive Digital Storytelling has evolved as a prospering research topic banding together formerly disjointed disciplines stemming from the arts and humanities as well as computer science. It’s tied up with the notion of storytelling as an effective means for the communication of knowledge and social values since the existence of humankind. It also builds a bridge between current academic trends investigating and formalizing computer games, and developments towards the experience-based design of human-media interaction in general. In Darmstadt, a first national workshop on Digital Storytelling was organized by ZGDV e.V. in 2000, which at that time gave an impression about the breadth of this new research field for computer graphics (DISTEL 2000). An international follow-up was planned: the 1st International Conference on Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment (TIDSE 2003). Taking place in March 2003, it showed a more focussed range of research specifically on concepts and first pro- types for automated storytelling and autonomous characters, including modelling of emotions and the user experience. At TIDSE 2004, an established and still-growing community of researchers ga- ered together to exchange results and visions. This confirms the construction of a series of European conferences on the topic – together with the International Conf- ence on Virtual Storytelling, ICVS (conducted in 2001 and 2003 in France) – which will be further cultivated.

Author : Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315499754
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Expansion of Economics written by Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economics, like most other social sciences, is not a pure discipline. Indeed, it has been enhanced by the fact that there is so much overlap between it and the related fields of business, industrial relations, political science, social psychology, and sociology. This book is the first attempt to explain how work in economics has influenced and benefited from a merging of economic analysis with the research practices of these related fields of study. With contributions from leading economists from around the world, it demonstrates how economics is leading the way toward a more unified social science.

Author : Mr.Alexander Culiuc
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1513545221
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Real Exchange Rate Overshooting in Large Depreciations: Determinants and Consequences written by Mr.Alexander Culiuc and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The consequences of large depreciations on economic activity depend on the relative strength of the contractionary balance sheet and expansionary expenditure switching effects. However, the two operate over different time horizons: the balance sheet effect hits almost immediately, while expenditure switching is delayed by nominal rigidities and other frictions. The paper hypothesizes that the overshooting phase—observed early in the depreciation episode and driven by the balance sheet effect—is largely irrelevant for expenditure switching, which is more closely aligned with ex-post equilibrium depreciation. Given this, larger real exchange rate overshooting should signal a relatively stronger balance sheet effect. Empirical findings support this hypothesis: (i) overshooting is driven by factors associated with the balance sheet effect (high external debt, low reserves, low trade openness), (ii) overshooting-based measures of the balance sheet effect foreshadow post-depreciation output losses, and (iii) the balance sheet effect is strongest early on, while expenditure switching strengthens over the medium term.

Author : Alessandro Bonforte
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889765792
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Volcanic Islands - A Challenge for Volcanology written by Alessandro Bonforte and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jun Tanimoto
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 4431549625
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fundamentals of Evolutionary Game Theory and its Applications written by Jun Tanimoto and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​This book both summarizes the basic theory of evolutionary games and explains their developing applications, giving special attention to the 2-player, 2-strategy game. This game, usually termed a "2×2 game” in the jargon, has been deemed most important because it makes it possible to posit an archetype framework that can be extended to various applications for engineering, the social sciences, and even pure science fields spanning theoretical biology, physics, economics, politics, and information science. The 2×2 game is in fact one of the hottest issues in the field of statistical physics. The book first shows how the fundamental theory of the 2×2 game, based on so-called replicator dynamics, highlights its potential relation with nonlinear dynamical systems. This analytical approach implies that there is a gap between theoretical and reality-based prognoses observed in social systems of humans as well as in those of animal species. The book explains that this perceived gap is the result of an underlying reciprocity mechanism called social viscosity. As a second major point, the book puts a sharp focus on network reciprocity, one of the five fundamental mechanisms for adding social viscosity to a system and one that has been a great concern for study by statistical physicists in the past decade. The book explains how network reciprocity works for emerging cooperation, and readers can clearly understand the existence of substantial mechanics when the term "network reciprocity" is used. In the latter part of the book, readers will find several interesting examples in which evolutionary game theory is applied. One such example is traffic flow analysis. Traffic flow is one of the subjects that fluid dynamics can deal with, although flowing objects do not comprise a pure fluid but, rather, are a set of many particles. Applying the framework of evolutionary games to realistic traffic flows, the book reveals that social dilemma structures lie behind traffic flow.

Author : Mohamed A. F. Noor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691203938
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Live Long and Evolve written by Mohamed A. F. Noor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Star Trek, crew members travel to unusual planets, meet diverse beings, and encounter unique civilizations. In these remarkable space adventures, does Star Trek reflect biology and evolution as we know it? What can the science in the science fiction of Star Trek teach us?"--Back cover