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Replicating Experiments in “Detour Behavior” with Artificially Evolved Robots: An A-Life Approach to Comparative Psychology
1999
To be useful in psychology "artificial organisms" have to perform tasks comparable to those performed by animals. One way to achieve this is to rephcate actual animal experiments. Here we reproduce an experiment showing "detour behavior" in chicks - a behavior usually explained in terms of "cognitive maps" or other forms of internal representation. We artificially evolve software-simulated robots with a "generic" ability to detour. Sensor-motor physics are carefully calibrated with data from a physical robot. Robot architecture is constrained to exclude internal representation. The evolutionary process rewards exploratory skills as well as detour behavior. Robot performance matches the resu…
Competition Logics during Digital Platform Evolution
2018
How are platforms built and how do they evolve? This is a salient question in digital ecosystems, where the competition has moved from traditional one-sided business logics to multi-sided platforms. In this paper, we explore how a digital platform evolves when the organization of the multilayered platform architecture, and related control points, is modified through competitive moves. We also examine how a firm may be able to manage the increased complexity of the platform. We show that when technical and strategic bottlenecks are solved, the platform owner can expand control to strategically important layers of the platform stack. The findings indicate that the complexity of the platform i…
Predictive and Evolutive Cross-Referencing for Web Textual Sources
2017
International audience; One of the main challenges in the domain of competitive intelligence is to harness important volumes of information from the web, and extract the most valuable pieces of information. As the amount of information available on the web grows rapidly and is very heterogeneous, this process becomes overwhelming for experts. To leverage this challenge, this paper presents a vision for a novel process that performs cross-referencing at web scale. This process uses a focused crawler and a semantic-based classifier to cross-reference textual items without expert intervention, based on Big Data and Semantic Web technologies. The system is described thoroughly, and interests of…
Metamodelling architectures for complex data integration in systems biology
2010
Systems biology aims at deciphering the functioning of biological systems on the basis of the knowledge of their molecular components and the relations between such components. To address the issues involved, high-throughput technologies are used. Taking advantage of the standards that are being currently developed to achieve consensual representations of technological domains, we present a metamodelling architecture based on these standards. The proposed architecture organises standard-specific metamodels and models into a single hierarchy. Each metamodel describes a consensus that is shared by several models of applications. A metamodel construct for description of faceted element is prop…
Data-Centric and Multimedia Components
2011
The content of XML documents is often primarily plain text, interspersed with various headers and perhaps some lists and tables. However, there are many applications for which the content of documents is not primarily narrative in nature, but instead includes (portions of) data records that are subject to storage and computational manipulation. The latter documents are sometimes referred to as data-centric or record-like, and they rely extensively on precise descriptions of the forms of data that can appear. In this chapter we first introduce the data type definition capabilities in XML Schema. We then consider the types of data very common in traditional databases: numeric data, dates, and…
Ermeneutica delle dissonanze
2013
Uno degli obiettivi più urgenti della ricerca architettonica consiste nella comprensione dei luoghi della contemporaneità. La molteplicità e la complessità che caratterizzano il paesaggio attuale impongono nuove chiavi di lettura e nuove strategie capaci di orientare lo sguardo dell’architetto. Bisogna cogliere la modernità del racconto che i luoghi suggeriscono e concepire i contenuti della narrazione all’interno della dialettica intessuta tra descrizione e progetto. Così come la composizione a scala architettonica si sostanzia e si qualifica dalla intersezione di figure e forme e dal sincretismo dei significati dello spazio, allo stesso modo, i contenuti di una composizione a scala territ…
"In cube". Composizioni geometriche lungo la via francigena / "In cube". Geometrical arrangements alang via francigena
2014
Lo scritto rilegge in filigrana, sotto forma di metafora, il percorso che gli studenti del Corso di Morfologia Urbana e Tipologie Edilizie hanno seguito attraverso l'esercitazione l'itinerario progettuale compiuto come viandanti del Politecnico con il viaggio che gli antichi pellegrini percorrevano lungo la via francigena per raggiungere la desiderata meta. L'esercitazione degli studenti è consistita nel collocare "figure geometriche" lungo il tracciato della francigena all'interno del tessuto storico della città di Piacenza. Attraverso una sequenza di tre diverse azioni progettuali: di aggregazioni di forme pure, secondo diversi sistemi (lineari, centrali, radiali); di reinterpretazioni de…
Investigations autour du potentiel stratégique du contrôle de gestion : réflexions théoriques, empiriques et exploratoires
2009
Le contrôle de gestion est une discipline qui a beaucoup évolué à partir de la fin des années 1980, notamment sous l'impulsion des auteurs américains Johnson et Kaplan. Notre mémoire est construit autour des dimensions stratégiques du contrôle de gestion. Nous nous interrogeons sur la pertinence du concept de contrôle de gestion stratégique dans sa capacité à promouvoir des réflexions et des travaux théoriques, empiriques et instrumentaux susceptibles d'enrichir l'articulation du contrôle de gestion au management stratégique. Notre mémoire se décompose en trois parties. Dans une première partie, nous revenons sur notre travail doctoral et ses prolongements en rappelant à quoi correspond le …
A grid representation for distributed virtual environments
2004
Fast Internet connections and the widespread use of high performance graphic cards are making Distributed Virtual Environments (DVE) very common nowadays. The architecture and behavior of these systems are very similar to new grid computing applications where concepts such as sharing and high scalability are extremely exploited. However, there are several key issues in these systems that should still be improved in order to design a scalable and cost-effective DVE system. One of these key issues is the partitioning problem. This problem consists of efficiently assigning clients (3-D avatars) to the arbiters (servers) in the system. As an alternative to the ad-hoc heuristic proposed in the l…
A Guaranteed performance of a green data center based on the contribution of vital nodes
2016
International audience; In order to satisfy the need for the critical computing resources, many data center architectures proposed to house a huge number of network devices. These devices are used to achieve the highest performance in case of full utilization of the network. However, the peak capacity of the network is rarely reached. Consequently, many devices are set into idle state and cause a huge energy waste leading to a non-proportionality between the network load and the energy consumed. In this paper, we propose a power-aware routing algorithm that saves energy consumption with a negligible trade-off on the performance of the network. The idea is to keep active only the source and …