A concept of complex objects, being artifacts that have one real physical part and several virtual parts representing certain aspects of the object, is introduced. These parts are ...
For knowledge representation and reasoning, there is a need to consider the nature of events because event data describe various features and behaviors of the occurrences of action...
Abstract During the last decade research groups as well as a number of commercial software developers have started to deploy embodied conversational characters in the user interfac...
A broad range of industries must be able to seamlessly integrate control applications using sensors distributed in the real world and IT applications supporting various business a...
—Time and uncertainty of the environment are very important aspects in the development of real world applications. Another important issue for the real world agents is, the balan...