In this thesis I present a virtual laboratory which implements five different models for controlling animats: a rule-based system, a behaviour-based system, a concept-based system...
Both parametric design tasks and analysis tasks of technical systems have a similar problem setting: The structure of the system to be configured or analyzed is defined already. W...
This paper describes an agent-based electronic market system whose underlying communication and cooperation protocols establish an artificial environment with advanced features. U...
To use graphics efficiently in an automatic report generation system, one has to model messages and how they go from the writer (intention) to the reader (interpretation). This pap...
Information modeling is concerned with the construction of computer-based symbol structures which capture the meaning of information and organize it in ways that make it understan...