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AAAI
1997
15 years 1 months ago
Building Brains for Rooms: Designing Distributed Software Agents
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...
Michael H. Coen
MASCOTS
2004
15 years 1 months ago
A Computational Complexity-Aware Model for Performance Analysis of Software Servers
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 ...
Vipul Mathur, Varsha Apte
APCHI
2004
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Designing for Flow in a Complex Activity
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...
Jon M. Pearce, Steve Howard
AIED
2009
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
From Conceptual Models to Agent-based Simulations: Why and How
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...
CVDB
2004
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
A Multimedia Data Base Browsing System
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...