MOOSE Crossing is a text-based virtual reality environment (or “MUD”) designed to be a constructionist learning environment for children ages eight to thirteen. The constructio...
We propose and evaluate a model for controlling infection patterns defined over rounds or real time in a gossipbased protocol using adaptive fanout. We model three versions of go...
The three-tiered discourse representation defined in (Luperfoy, 1991) is applied to multimodal humancomputer interface (HCI) dialogues. In the applied system the three tiers are (...
The models used in social simulation to date have mostly been very simplistic cognitively, with little attention paid to the details of individual cognition. This work proposes a ...
We present an analysis of the benefits and drawbacks of function and object based models in system specification. Functional models should be used for functional design space expl...