Recent research has shown that virtual agents expressing empathic emotions toward users have the potentiality to enhance human-machine interaction. To provide empathic capabilitie...
This paper describes the software infrastructure introduced within the AgentService framework in order to provide support for ontology design, development, and management. Ontolog...
Antonio Boccalatte, Andrea Gozzi, Alberto Grosso, ...
In this paper, we present our approach to modelling perceptive 3D virtual characters with emotion and personality. The characters are powered by a dialogue system that consists of...
Arjan Egges, Sumedha Kshirsagar, Xuan Zhang, Nadia...
— Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are an indispensable tool for marine scientists to study the world’s oceans. The Slocum glider is a buoyancy driven AUV designed for mis...
A deterministic behavior of systems composed of several modules is a desirable design goal. Assembling a complex system from components requires also a high degree of re-usability....