This paper offers a fresh perspective to study the role and implications of information and communications technologies (ICT) in processes of local democracy. It moves away from ea...
The potential of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) to enable new forms of social interaction and foster democratisation of decision making has raised much interest but has bee...
Abstract. This article considers the link between theory and practice in agentoriented programming. We begin by rigorously defining a new formal specification language for autono...
We introduce a framework for advanced behavioral animation in virtual humans, which addresses the challenging open problem of simulating social interactions between pedestrians in...
Assistance to people suffering from cognitive deficiencies in a smart home raises complex issues. Plan recognition is one of them. We propose a formal framework for the recognition...
Bruno Bouchard, Sylvain Giroux, Abdenour Bouzouane