The use of computer simulations is changing the nature of scientific investigation and providing us unique insights into the way that the world works. As simulation moves from the...
—Games built on Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become a phenomenon since 3rd party developer tools were exposed by OSNs such as Facebook. However, apart from their explosive ...
In this paper, we describe the design and development of a social game called Familiars. Inspired by the daemons in Pullman’s “Dark Material” trilogy, Familiars are animal c...
Ben Kirman, Eva Ferrari, Shaun Lawson, Jonathan Fr...
A key challenge for agent-oriented software engineering is to develop and implement open systems composed of interacting autonomous agents. On the one hand, there is a need for pe...
Wilfried Brauer, Matthias Nickles, Michael Rovatso...
With the ubiquitous deployment of large scale networks more and more complex human interactions are supported by computer applications. This poses new challenges on the expressive...