Mediated Modeling

Author : Marjan Van den Belt
Publisher : Washington, DC : Island Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mediated Modeling written by Marjan Van den Belt and published by Washington, DC : Island Press. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mediated modeling is an innovative new approach that enhances the use of computer models as invaluable tools to guide policy and management decisions. Rather than having outside experts dispensing answers to local stakeholders, mediated modeling brings together diverse interests to raise the shared level of understanding and foster a broad and deep consensus. It provides a structured process based on system dynamics thinking in which community members, government officials, industry representatives, and other stakeholders can work together to produce a coherent, simple but elegant simulation model. Mediated Modeling by Marjan Van Den Belt is a practical guide to participatory modeling for both practitioners and students, one that is firmly theoretically grounded in the field of systems dynamics and environmental modeling. Five in-depth case studies describe the successful use of the technique in a variety of settings, and a final chapter synthesizes the lessons highlighted by the case studies. Mediated Modeling's step-by-step description of the techniques and practical advice regarding implementation offer a real-world solution for all those seeking to make sound decisions about the environment.

Author : Andrew F. Hayes
Publisher : Guilford Publications
ISBN 13 : 146253466X
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Mediation, Moderation, and Conditional Process Analysis, Second Edition written by Andrew F. Hayes and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been replaced by Introduction to Mediation, Moderation, and Conditional Process Analysis, Third Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-4903-0.

Author : Silvia Scaglione
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889740153
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recent 3D Tumor Models for Testing Immune-Mediated Therapies written by Silvia Scaglione and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-01-10 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank Dignum
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540446826
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce written by Frank Dignum and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-06-29 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is now no longer necessary to argue the importance of agent technology. Be- des numerous conferences and workshops on speci c aspects of agent technology there are also many companies that are exploring its exploitation possibilities. In the light of these developments and in order to foster the transfer of agent technology from research labs to business, the EU has funded a \network of exc- lence" devoted to agent technology. This network of excellence, called AgentLink (http://www. agentlink. org/), aims at bringing together research groups from d- ferent countries and industrial developers. The ultimate goal is to create synergy among the di erent projects and groups to improve the competence of European industry and the excellence of academia. In order to achieve this goal, Agent- Link organises educational activities (summer schools), builds agent-related - terature repositories, and facilitates collaboration between member nodes. One of the main activities related to the last point are the regular meetings of \S- cial Interest Groups" (SIGs). At this moment six SIGs are functioning, focusing on topics ranging from agent based social simulation to intelligent agents for telecommunications applications and telematics. The current book combines two results from the activities of the SIG on \Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce". This SIG gathers the main research groups and industrial partners interested in the use of agent technology in el- tronic commerce. First and foremost the book contains a roadmap of research and current technological developments in the area of agent-mediated electronic commerce.

Author : T. Zollner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540268111
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Models of T Cell-Mediated Skin Diseases written by T. Zollner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-01-19 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pharmaceutical companies are spending increasing amounts of money on drug discovery and development. Nevertheless, attrition rates in clinical development are still very high, and up to 90% of new compounds fail in clinical phase I - III trials, which is partially due to lack of clinical efficacy. This indicates a strong need for highly predictive in vitro and in vivo models. The "50th International Workshop of the Ernst Schering Research Foundation" focussed on "Animal Models of T Cell-Mediated Skin Diseases". Such animal models should have impact not only on inflammatory dermatoses but also on other inflammatory disorders due to their model character. The current volume summarises recent advances in animal research that are important for anti-inflammatory drug discovery.

Author : Danny Weyns
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540850295
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engineering Environment-Mediated Multi-Agent Systems written by Danny Weyns and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Software intensive systems are increasingly expected to deal with changing user needs and dynamic operating conditions at run time. Examples are the need for life recon?gurations, management of resource variability, and dealing with p- ticular failure modes. Endowing systems with these kinds of capabilities poses severe challenges to software engineers and necessitates the development of new techniques, practices, and tools that build upon sound engineering principles. The ?eld of multi-agent systems focuses on the foundations and engineering of systems that consists of a network of autonomous entities (agents) that int- act to achieve the system goals. One line of research in multi-agent systems, inspired by biological, physical and other naturally occurring systems, concerns multi-agent systems in which agents share information and coordinate their - havior througha shared medium called an agentenvironment. Typical examples are gradient ?elds and digital pheromones that guide agents in their local c- text and as such facilitate the coordination of a community of agents. Since environment-mediation in multi-agent systems has shown to result in mana- able solutions with very adaptable qualities, it is a promising paradigm to deal with the increasing complexity and dynamism of distributed applications. Control in environment-mediated multi-agent systems is decentralized, i. e. , noneofthecomponentshasfullaccessorcontroloverthesystem. Self-organization isanapproachtoengineerdecentralized,distributedandresource-limitedsystems thatarecapableofdynamicallyadaptingtochangingconditionsandrequirements without external intervention. This useful system property is often re?ected in functionssuchasself-con?guration,self-optimization,andself-healing. Engine- ing approaches to self-organizing systems often rely on global functionality to emerge from localand autonomous decisions of individual agents that commu- catethroughasharedagentenvironment.

Author : Dawn Iacobucci
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 141292569X
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mediation Analysis written by Dawn Iacobucci and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores even the fundamental assumptions underlying mediation analysis

Author : Frank Dignum
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540447237
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce III written by Frank Dignum and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-06-29 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book we present a collection of papers around the topic of Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce. Most of the papers originate from the third workshop on Agent{Mediated Electronic Commerce held in conjunction with the Autonomous Agents conference in June 2000. After two previous workshops, one during the Autonomous Agents conference in 1998 in Minneapolis and the second one in conjunction with the International Joint Conference On Arti cial Intelligence in 1999, this workshop continued the tradition of the previous ones by setting the scene for the assessment of the challenges that Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce faces as well as the opportunities it creates. By focusing on age- mediated interactions, specialists from di erent disciplines were brought together who contribute theoretical and application perspectives in the narrowly focused topic that nevertheless involves wide ranging concerns such as: agent architec- res, institutionalization, economic theory, modeling, legal frameworks and policy guidelines. The main topics for the workshop were: { Electronic negotiation models for agents { Formal issues for agents that operate in electronic market places { Virtual trading institutions and platforms { Trading strategies for interrelated transactions (respectively auctions) The workshop received 12 submissions of which 7 were selected for publication in this volume. Although the number of submissions was less then expected for an important area like agent-mediated electronic commerce there is no reason to worry that this area does not get enough attention from the agent community.

Author : Ludger van Elst
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540246126
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management written by Ludger van Elst and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-02-12 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, we present a collection of papers around the topic of Agent- Mediated Knowledge Management. Most of the papers are extended and - provedversions of work presented at the symposium on Agent-Mediated Kno- edge Management held during the AAAI Spring Symposia Series in March 2003 at Stanford University. The aim of the Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management symposium was to bring together researchers and practitioners of the ?elds of KM and agent te- nologiestodiscussthebene?ts,possibilitiesandadded-valueofcross-fertilization. Knowledge Management (KM) has been a predominant trend in bu- ness in recent years. Not only is Knowledge Management an important ?eld of applicationfor AIandrelatedtechniques,suchasCBRtechnologyforintelligent lessons-learned systems, it also provides new challenges to the AI community, like, for example, context-aware knowledge delivery. Scaling up research pro- typestoreal-worldsolutionsusuallyrequiresanapplication-drivenintegrationof several basic technologies, e.g., ontologies for knowledge sharing and reuse, c- laboration support like CSCW systems, and personalized information services. Typical characteristics to be dealt with in such an integration are: - manifold, logically and physically dispersed actors and knowledge sources, - di?erent degrees of formalization of knowledge, - di?erent kinds of (Web-based) services and (legacy) systems, - con?icts between local (individual) and global (group or organizational) goals.

Author : Dongchang Sun
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832529534
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horizontal gene transfer mediated bacterial antibiotic resistance, vol II written by Dongchang Sun and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-07-12 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: