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IAT
2009
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Adaptive Deterrence Sanctions in a Normative Framework
Normative environments are used to regulate multiagent interactions. In business encounters, agents representing business entities make contracts including norms that prescribe wh...
Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Eugénio C. Oliveira
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Applying a Cognitive Architecture to Control of Virtual Non-Player Characters
CHI Systems, under contract to the U. S. Army Research Institute, is developing an immersive training system, called Virtual Environment Cultural Training for Operational Readines...
Chris McCollum, Charles Barba, Thomas Santarelli, ...
IPPS
1994
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Shared Virtual Memory and Generalized Speedup
Generalized speedup is de ned as parallel speed over sequential speed. In this paper the generalized speedup and its relation with other existing performance metrics, such as trad...
Xian-He Sun, Jianping Zhu
SEKE
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
An Agent-based Centralized e-Marketplace in a Virtual Environment
In this paper we present the design and implementation of an agent-mediated B2C e-Marketplace as part of the social and immersive 3D e-Tourism environment “Itchy Feet”. Custom...
Ingo Seidel, Markus Gärtner, Josef Froschauer...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
The effect of affective iconic realism on anonymous interactants' self-disclosure
In this paper, we describe progress in research designed to explore the effect of the combination of avatars' visual fidelity and users' anticipated future interaction o...
Sin-Hwa Kang, Jonathan Gratch, James H. Watt