This paper investigates the problem of determining when a computer agent should interrupt a person with whom it is working collaboratively as part of a distributed, multi-agent team, which is operating in environments in which conditions may be rapidly changing, actions occur at a fast pace, and decisions must be made within tightly constrained time frames.
While the stately pace of decision-making in government is, in many ways, a useful antidote to the fickle daily demands made of politicians in the press, it can also come across as being out of touch with the reasonable public expectation that action should be taken rapidly.
Actions will be more rapidly taken to directly address the increasing market complexity.
We are not saying that it is too late to take actions, but the window for action is closing rapidly," Benedict warns.
Action potentials can be transmitted rapidly over long distances, allowing for coordination and precise timing of physiological outputs.
These sites are rich in voltage-gated sodium channels, causing the action potential to be propagated rapidly.
"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage," says former GE CEO Jack Welch.
But the window for meaningful policy action is closing rapidly.
Incremental changes, now being experienced in some areas, are useful but will not suffice: we have waited too long and the window for action is closing rapidly in some domains including such global commons as climate.
"I am relieved that Elian has been reunited with his father," Mrs. Clinton said in her first remarks since Saturday's raid, adding that the action "was accomplished rapidly and without injury".
Prof Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said that the report is "an effective piece of work" to assess the planet's mineral wealth "within the framework of sustainability". Its findings offer a "valuable basis for discussions on mineral policy". But the window for meaningful policy action is closing rapidly.
