In philosophy, the term ontology has been used since the 17th century to refer both to a philosophical discipline (Ontology with a capital "O"), and as a domain-independe...
This work presents some anticipatory mechanisms in an agent architecture, modeling affective behaviours as effects of surprise. Through experiment discussion, the advantages of bec...
Level-of-detail (LOD) representations are an important tool for realtime rendering of complex geometric environments. The previously introduced progressive mesh representation def...
Goals are an important concept in intelligent agent systems, and can take a variety of forms. One such form is maintenance goals, which, unlike achievement goals, define states th...
We implement and compare the major current techniques for representing general trees in succinct form. This is important because a general tree of n nodes is usually represented i...