This paper proposes an alternative paradigm for building affective competencies in embodied conversational agents (ECAs). The key feature of this approach -- and the reason for ref...
Abstract. In this paper the methodology followed to build a questionanswering system for the Portuguese language is described. The system modules are built using computational ling...
We propose a compositional approach to the dynamics of gene regulatory networks based on the stochastic π-calculus, and develop a representation of gene network elements which can...
Abstract. The purpose of this paper is to present a technique to create a global map of a robot’s surrounding by converting the raw data acquired from a scanning sensor to a comp...
We introduce a class of generalized DNF formulae called wDNF or weighted disjunctive normal form, and present a molecular algorithm that learns a wDNF formula from training example...