Adding a learning companion, a computer simulated social agent, to a computer based learning system can enhance its educational value by enriching the way in which the computer and...
Abstract. Real-time systems usually encompass parts that are best described by a continuous-time model, such as physical processes under control, together with other components tha...
This paper presents a knowledge-intensive support paradigm for platform-based product family design and development. The fundamental issues underlying the product family design an...
Abstract. In this work, an agent architecture that combines defeasible argumentation and the BDI model is described. Argumentation will be used as a mechanism for reasoning about b...
Abstract. This paper presents a framework of specification and verification for distributed real-time object-oriented systems. An earlier paper [17] introduced a process calculus...