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ECAI
1992
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
A Common-Sense Theory of Time
The literature on the nature and representation of time is full of disputes and contradictory theories. This is surprising since the nature of time does not cause any worry for pe...
Yuen Q. Lin
AI
2003
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
A Formal Theory for Describing Action Concepts in Terminological Knowledge Bases
This paper introduces a formal theory for describing actions in terminological knowledge bases, closely related to description logics. It deals in particular with the problem of ad...
Christel Kemke
VRST
2003
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Information-rich virtual environments: theory, tools, and research agenda
Virtual environments (VEs) allow users to experience and interact with a rich sensory environment, but most virtual worlds contain only sensory information similar to that which w...
Doug A. Bowman, Chris North, Jian Chen, Nicholas F...
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AAAI
2000
14 years 11 months ago
What Sensing Tells Us: Towards a Formal Theory of Testing for Dynamical Systems
Just as actions can have indirect effects on the state of the world, so too can sensing actions have indirect effects on an agent's state of knowledge. In this paper, we inve...
Sheila A. McIlraith, Richard B. Scherl
CSCW
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Situated practices of looking: visual practice in an online world
Graphical virtual worlds are increasingly significant sites of collaborative interaction. Many argue that the simulation of the everyday environment makes them particularly effect...
Lilly Irani, Gillian R. Hayes, Paul Dourish