Events play an important role in the construction of most software that involves interaction or simulation. Typically, programmers make use of a fixed set of low level events supp...
It is possible to define conversation policies, such as communication or dialogue protocols, that are based strictly on what messages and, respectively, what performatives may foll...
This paper presents the CQ algorithm which decomposes and solves a Markov Decision Process (MDP) by automatically generating a hierarchy of smaller MDPs using state variables. The ...
We present the concept of hierarchical instantiation for radiosity. This new method enables an efficient, yet accurate determination of the illumination in very large scenes, wher...
When writing a program generator requires considerable intellectual effort, it is valuable to amortize that effort by using the generator to build more than one application. When ...