We report on a case study in the emergence of a lexicon in a group of autonomous distributed agents situated and grounded in an open environment. Because the agents are autonomous,...
In restructuring legacy code it may be useful to introduce a design pattern in order to add clarity to the system and thus facilitate further program evolution. We show that aspec...
There are a number of competing component models in use today. Most are language-independent, but also platform-dependent and not designed to support a tool-based development para...
Abstract. This paper addresses an aspect of sign language (SL) recognition that has largely been overlooked in previous work and yet is integral to signed communication. It is the ...
We discuss the affective aspects of tutoring dialogues in an ITS -called INES- that helps students to practice nursing tasks using a haptic device and a virtual environment. Specia...
Dirk Heylen, Maarten Vissers, Rieks op den Akker, ...