Scale invariance in natural and artificial collective systems: a review

Y Khaluf, E Ferrante, P Simoens… - Journal of the royal …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Self-organized collective coordinated behaviour is an impressive phenomenon, observed in
a variety of natural and artificial systems, in which coherent global structures or dynamics …

Leveraging task modularity in reinforcement learning for adaptable industry 4.0 automation

Q Chen, B Heydari… - Journal of …, 2021 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The vision of Industry 4.0 is to materialize the notion of a lot-size of one through enhanced
adaptability and resilience of manufacturing and logistics operations to dynamic changes or …

Airbnb and neighborhood crime: The incursion of tourists or the erosion of local social dynamics?

L Ke, D T. O'Brien, B Heydari - PLoS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The proliferation of internet-based home-sharing platforms like Airbnb has raised heated
debates, with many in the general public believing that the presence of Airbnb listings can …

Adaptable automation with modular deep reinforcement learning and policy transfer

Z Raziei, M Moghaddam - Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2021 - Elsevier
Future industrial automation systems are anticipated to be shaped by intelligent
technologies that allow for the adaptability of machines to the variations and uncertainties in …

Guiding the behavior of sociotechnical systems: The role of agent‐based modeling

B Heydari, MJ Pennock - Systems Engineering, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Performance and success for many sociotechnical systems depend on the way the social
and the technical parts interact and coevolve with each other. Such dynamic interactions are …

Large model strategic thinking, small model efficiency: transferring theory of mind in large language models

N Lore, S Ilami, B Heydari - arxiv preprint arxiv:2408.05241, 2024 - arxiv.org
As the performance of larger, newer Large Language Models continues to improve for
strategic Theory of Mind (ToM) tasks, the demand for these state-of-the-art models increases …

Enumerating connected subgraphs and computing the Myerson and Shapley values in graph-restricted games

O Skibski, T Rahwan, TP Michalak… - ACM Transactions on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
At the heart of multi-agent systems is the ability to cooperate to improve the performance of
individual agents and/or the system as a whole. While a widespread assumption in the …

Building back better: Modeling decentralized recovery in sociotechnical systems using strategic network dynamics

N Maddah, B Heydari - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2024 - Elsevier
The ability of sociotechnical systems to recover from disruptions through decentralized,
bottom-up processes is a crucial element of their overall resilience, but it is also among the …

Design teams and industry life cycles: The interplay of innovation and complexity

S Padhee, N Lore, B Heydari - Systems Engineering, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This paper studies how innovation teams can be optimally configured to yield the best
possible performance at different stages of a certain technology's life cycle, which …