This paper investigates the methodological foundations of a new research field called chance discovery which aims to detect future opportunities and risks. By drawing on concepts...
Multi-agent systems are a kind of concurrent distributed systems. In this work, some guidelines on how to create multi-agent systems using Erlang are presented. The modelled syste...
Carlos Varela, Carlos Abalde, Laura M. Castro, Jos...
In this paper, we propose to design a market game that (a) can be used in modeling and studying commodity trading scenarios, and (b) can be used in capturing human traders’ beha...
This paper introduces an ant-based colony system for the representation of a verbal route description. It is grounded on a natural metaphor that mimics the behavior of ant colonie...
The importance of the efforts towards integrating the symbolic and connectionist paradigms of artificial intelligence has been widely recognised. Integration may lead to more e...