Soft constraints are a generalization of classical constraints, where constraints and/or partial assignments are associated to preference or importance levels, and constraints are...
In most of today's agent systems migration of agents requires homogeneity in the programming language and/or agent platform in which an agent has been designed. In this paper...
Frances M. T. Brazier, Benno J. Overeinder, Maarte...
Interactive storytelling can either be based on explicit plot representations or on the autonomous behaviour of artificial characters. In such a character-based approach, the dyna...
This paper focuses on coordination middleware for distributed applications based on active documents and XML technologies. It introduces the main concepts underlying active docume...
Paolo Ciancarini, Robert Tolksdorf, Franco Zambone...
This paper describes ongoing work on a project to simulate the behaviour of epidermal growth factor receptors. These are structures which can be found on the surface of cells in th...
Jacki P. Goldman, William J. Gullick, Dennis Bray,...