<Para ID="Par1">Emerging location-based services in social media tools such as Foursquare and Twitter are providing an unprecedented amount of public-generated data on human movements and activities. This novel data source contains valuable information (e.g., geo-location, time and date, type of places) on...</para>

You do not have to look far and we can see that every electronic device is built around at least one processor which is a miniature brain, in the most simplified way (borrows a few features that help to control that device). Scientists try to simulate a brain to fully comply with the biological...

Linguistic meaning is a convention. This article investigates how such conventions can arise for color categories in populations of simulated "agents". The method uses concepts from evolutionary game theory: A language game where agents assign names to color patches and is played repeatedly by...