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Escaping Salem : the other witch hunt of 1692 by Godbeer, Richard

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Transforming trauma : the roots of addiction by Levine, Peter A.

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Circus by Prelutsky, Jack

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All wet! All wet! by Skofield, James

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E-CARGO and role-based collaboration : modeling and solving problems in the complex world by Zhu, Haibin

Table of Contents: “…-- 1.7.2 Examples of Complex Systems -- 1.8 Collaboration and Problem Solving -- 1.9 Summary -- References -- Exercises -- Chapter 2 Role Concepts -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 2.1 Terminology -- 2.2 Modeling-Roles -- 2.2.1 Evolution of Objects -- 2.2.2 Fundamental Modeling Concepts -- 2.2.3 Interfaces between Objects -- 2.2.4 Separation of Concerns -- 2.2.5 Modeling-Roles in Specification and Design -- 2.3 Roles in Agent Systems -- 2.4 Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) -- 2.4.1 Evolution of RBAC-Roles -- 2.4.2 Applications of RBAC-Roles -- 2.5 Roles in CSCW Systems -- 2.6 Roles in Social Psychology and Management -- 2.7 Convergence of Role Concepts -- 2.8 Summary -- References -- Exercises -- Part 2 Methodologies and Models -- Chapter 3 Role-Based Collaboration -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 3.1 Requirements for Role-Based Collaboration -- 3.2 Architecture of an RBC system -- 3.3 The Environment Established by Role-Based Collaboration -- 3.4 The Process of Role-Based Collaboration -- 3.5 Fundamental Principles of RBC -- 3.5.1 Object principles -- 3.5.2 Agent principles -- 3.5.3 Role principles -- 3.5.4 Group principles -- 3.6 Benefits of Role-Based Collaboration -- 3.6.1 Establish trust in collaboration -- 3.6.2 Establish Dynamics -- 3.6.3 Facilitate Interaction -- 3.6.4 Support adaptation -- 3.6.5 Information Sharing -- 3.6.6 Other benefits -- 3.7 Summary -- References -- Exercises -- Chapter 4 The E-CARGO Model -- Abstract -- Keyword -- 4.1 First Class Components -- 4.1.1 Objects and Classes -- 4.1.2 Roles and Environments -- 4.1.3 Agents and Groups -- 4.2 Second Class Components -- 4.2.1 Users or Human Users -- 4.2.2 Message -- 4.2.3 System -- 4.3 Fundamental Relationships in E-CARGO -- 4.3.1 The Relations among Roles -- 4.3.1.1 Role Classes and Instances -- 4.3.1.2 Inheritance Relation -- 4.3.1.3 Promotion relations -- 4.3.1.4 Report-to Relations -- 4.3.1.5 Request relations -- 4.1.3.6 Derived relations -- 4.1.3.7 Conflict relations -- 4.3.2 The Relations between Roles and Agents -- 4.3.3 The Relations between Agents -- 4.3.4 Properties of an RBC system and their Applications -- 4.4 Kernel Mechanisms of RBC -- 4.4.1 Primitive roles -- 4.4.2 Fundamental Classes -- 4.4.3 Implementation -- 4.5 Related Work -- 4.6 Summary -- References -- Exercises -- Chapter 5 Group Role Assignment (GRA) -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 5.1 Role Assignment -- 5.2 A Real-World Problem -- 5.3 Extended Expression of the E-CARGO Model -- 5.4 Group Role Assignment Problems -- 5.4.1 Simple role assignment -- 5.4.2 Rated group role assignment -- 5.4.3 Weighted role assignment -- 5.5 General Assignment Problem and the K-M Algorithm -- 5.6 Solutions to GRA Problems -- 5.7 Implementation and Performance Experiments -- 5.8 Performance Analysis -- 5.9 Case Study by Simulation -- 5.10 Related Work -- 5.11 Summary -- References -- Exercises -- Chapter 6 Group Role Assignment with Constraints: GRA+ -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 6.1 Group Multi-Role Assignment (GMRA) -- 6.1.1 A Real-World Scenario -- 6.1.2 Problem Formalization -- 6.1.3 The CPLEX solution and its Performance Experiments -- 6.1.4 Improvement of the CPLEX Solution -- 6.1.5 Comparisons -- 6.1.6 Another Real-World Example -- 6.2 Group Role Assignment with Conflicting Agents (GRACA) -- 6.2.1 A Real-World Scenario -- 6.2.2 Problem Formalization -- 6.2.3 The Benefits of Avoiding Conflicts -- 6.2.4 GRACAR/G Problems Are Subproblems of an NP-Complete Problem -- 6.2.5 Solutions with CPLEX -- 6.3 Group Role Assignment with Cooperation and Conflict Factors -- 6.3.1 A Real-World Scenario -- 6.3.2 Problem Formalization -- 6.3.3 A Practical Solution -- 6.3.4 Performance Experiments -- 6.3.5 The Benefits -- 6.3.6 Cooperation and conflict Factor Collection -- 6.4 Related Work -- 6.5 Summary -- References -- Exercises -- Chapter 7 Group Role Assignment with Multiple Objectives: GRA++ -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 7.1 Group Role Assignment with Budget Constraints (GRABC) -- 7.1.1 A Real-World Scenario -- 7.1.2 Problem Formalization -- 7.1.3 Solutions with an LP Solver -- 7.1.4 Simulations of GRABC-WS and GRABC-Syn -- 7.1.5 Performance Experiments and improvements -- 7.1.6 Synthesis and a case Study -- 7.2 Good at Many things and Expert in One (GMEO) -- 7.2.1 A Real-World Scenario -- 7.2.2 Problem Formalizations -- 7.2.3 A Solution with CPLEX -- 7.2.4 Performance Experiments and Improvements -- 7.2.5 A Simple Formalization of GMEO with an Efficient Solution -- 7.2.6 A More Efficient Solution for GMEO-1 -- 7.3 Related Work -- 7.4 Summary -- References -- Exercises -- Chapter 8 Solving Engineering Problems with GRA -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 8.1 Group Role Assignment with Agents' Busyness Degrees -- 8.1.1 A Real-World Scenario -- 8.1.2 Problem Formalization -- 8.1.3 Solutions -- 8.1.4 Simulations and Benefits -- 8.2 Group Multi-Role Assignment with Coupled Roles -- 8.2.1 A Real-World Scenario -- 8.2.2 The Problem Specification -- 8.2.3 The Solutions with CPLEX and Initial Results -- 8.2.4 Verification Experiments -- 8.3 Most Economical Redundant Assignment -- 8.3.1 A Real-World Scenario -- 8.3.2 Problem Formalizations -- 8.3.3 A Solution with CPLEX -- 8.3.4 A new Form of the MERA Problem and a More Efficient Solution -- 8.3.5 Experiments and Comparisons -- 8.4 Group Role Assignment with Agents' Preferences -- 8.4.1 A Real-World Scenario -- 8.4.2 Problem Formalization -- 8.4.3 The Benefits of Considering Agents' Preferences -- 8.5 Related Work -- 8.6 Summary -- References -- Exercises -- Chapter 9 Role Transfer -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 9.1 Role Transfer Problems -- 9.1.1 Algorithm to Find a Partition -- 9.1.2 Role Transfer Algorithm with Matrices -- 9.1.3 Algorithm for Role Transfer with the E-CARGO Model -- 9.2 The M-M Role Transfer Problems -- 9.2.1 M-1 Problem -- 9.2.2 1-M Problem -- 9.2.3 M-M Problem -- 9.3 From M-M RTPs to Role Assignment Problems -- 9.4 Temporal M-M Role Transfer Problems -- 9.4.1 Temporal Transfer with Weak Restriction -- 9.4.2 Temporal Transfer with Strong Restriction -- 9.4.3 A Near-Optimal Solution to SRTP with the Kuhn-Munkres Algorithm -- 9.4.4 Performance Experiments -- 9.5 Role Transfer Tool -- 9.6 Related work -- 9.7 Summary -- References -- Exercises -- Chapter 10 Adaptive Collaboration Systems -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 10.1 Adaptation and Adaptability -- 10.2 A Real-World Problem -- 10.3 Group Performance and its parameters -- 10.4 Adaptive Collaboration -- 10.4.1 A scenario for a future battle -- 10.4.2 Apply E-CARGO and Related Algorithms to Solve the Problem -- 10.4.3 A new qualification model -- 10.5 The Architecture and the Self-* Properties of an Adaptive Collaboration System -- 10.6 A General Approach to AC -- 10.7 Related Work -- 10.8 Summary -- References -- Exercises -- Part 3 Applications -- Chapter 11 Team Performance -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 11. 1 Team Performance -- 11.2 Static Team Performance -- 11.2.1 Modeling Team Performance with the E-CARGO Model -- 11.2.2 Refine the Predicted Team Performance by Introducing More Constraints -- 11.2.3 Case Study -- 11.3 Dynamic Team Performance -- 11.3.1 A Typical Dynamic Scenario of Collaboration -- 11.3.2 Formalization of dynamic team performance -- 11.3.3 Simulation Design -- 11.3.4 Simulation Results and Analysis -- 11.4 Related Work -- 11.5 Summary -- References -- Exercises -- Chapter 12 Applications of RBC and E-CARGO -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 12.1 Role-Based Human-Computer Interaction -- 12.1.1 Natural Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence -- 12.1.2 Interaction -- 12.1.3 Characteristics of Interaction -- 12.1.4 Classification of Interactions -- 12.1.5 The differences between HCI and AI3 -- 12.1.6 Shared models for interaction -- 12.1.7 Roles as shared models for interaction -- 12.1.8 Scenarios of Role-Based Interaction -- 12.1.9 Case Study: Restrain Mental Workload with Roles -- 12.2 When to Re-staff a Late Project -- 12.2.1 Formalization of the Problem -- 12.2.2 A Solution Based on GRA -- 12.2.3 Simulations -- 12.2.4 Performances -- 12.2.5 Case study -- 12.3 An Efficient Outpatient Scheduling Approach -- 12.3.1 A Real-World Outpatient Scheduling Problem -- 12.3.2 Collaborative Outpatient Scheduling - Our Strategy -- 12.3.3 From the Outpatient Problem to the Group Role Assignment Problem -- 12.3.4 The Algorithm and Complexity -- 12.4 Related Work -- 12.5 Chapter Summary -- References -- Exercises -- Chapter 13 Social Simulation with RBC and E-CARGO -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 13.1 Social Systems, Organizations, and Individuals -- 13.2 Establishing the Requirement of Social Simulation -- 13.3 Meeting the requirements of Social Simulation with E-CARGO -- 13.4 Social Simulation Method with RBC and E-CARGO -- 13.5 Case Study 1: Peer Review and Improvement -- 13.5.1 Peer Review -- 13.5.2 The Benefits Obtained by GRA -- 13.6 Case Study 2: Collectivism or Individualism -- 13.6.1 How to Express Collectivism and Individualism -- 13.6.2 Overall team performances of Collectivism and Individualism -- 13.6.3 Simulations and Results -- 13.7 Case Study 3: How to Acquire the Preferred Position in a Team -- 13.7.1 A Real-World Scenario -- 13.7.2 Policies and Simulation Experiments -- 13.7.3 The Effects to the Group Performance -- ...…”
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At the table of power : food and cuisine in the African American struggle for freedom, justice, and equality by Spivey, Diane M., 1949-

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Gaston Contremoulins, 1869-1950 : visionary pioneer of radiology : forgotten heritage by Mornet, Patrick

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Highway engineering : planning, design, and operations by Findley, Daniel J., Schroeder, Bastian J., Cunningham, Christopher M., Brown, Thomas H.

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