The increasing importance of the Internet has motivated the exploration of new execution models based on mobile and dynamic entities to overcome the limits of the client/server mo...
Cognitive appraisal theories, which link human emotional experience to their interpretations of events happening in the environment, are leading approaches to model emotions. In th...
Abstract. The aim of the work is to develop formal models of interaction and of the related support infrastructures, that overcome the limits of the current approaches. We propose ...
Animated pedagogical agents offer promise as a means of making computer-aided learning more engaging and effective. To achieve this, an agent must be able to interact with the lea...
W. Lewis Johnson, Erin Shaw, Andrew Marshall, Cath...
Gaia is a well-known Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) methodology. The emerging Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) paradigm encourages software modelers to automate the trans...