There exists a widely recognized need to better understand and manage complex "systems of systems," ranging from biology, ecology, and medicine to network-centric technol...
Fairly rapid environmental changes call for continuous surveillance and on-line decision making. There are two main areas where IT technologies can be valuable. In this paper we pr...
This paper describes experimental use of the multi-agent architecture to integrate Natural Language and Information Systems research and teaching, by casting a group of students a...
Layered architectures are a proven principle for the design of software systems and components. The paper introduces a layered reference architecture for software agents which assi...
In this paper we describe the reproduction of emotional mechanisms in the cognitive agent CTS (Conscious Tutoring System). The model replicates the amygdala's emotional influ...
Usef Faghihi, Pierre Poirier, Daniel Dubois, Moham...