This paper argues that complex, embedded software agent systems are best constructed with parallel, layered architectures. These systems resemble Minskian Societies of Mind and Br...
Queueing models are routinely used to analyze the performance of software systems. However, contrary to common assumptions, the time that a software server takes to complete jobs ...
One component of a user's interaction with computer systems is commonly referred to as `flow'. Flow is an important consideration in interactive system design as it enca...
The core problem we address in this paper is how to take a declarative conceptual representation of a complex system and produce an agent-based simulation of that model. In particu...
Swaroop Vattam, Ashok K. Goel, Spencer Rugaber, Ci...
Browsing large multimedia databases is becoming a challenging problem, due to the availability of great amounts of data and the complexity of retrieval. In this paper we propose a...
Massimiliano Albanese, Carmine Cesarano, Antonio P...