: We present a way to mix the lower control of agents with the high level specifications of their goals. This paper addresses various topics required to animate virtual humans in a...
Researchers have been emphasizing the strong role that multi-agent systems can play progressively towards the design and implementation of complex autonomic systems. The aim of th...
— The need for self-healing software to respond with a reactive, proactive or preventative action as a result of changes in its environment has added the non-functional requireme...
This paper describes an experiment where the effect of dynamic shadows in an immersive virtual environment is measured with respect to spatial perception and presence. Eight subjec...
In this paper, we survey the role of virtual humans (or embodied conversational agents) in smart and ambient intelligence environments. Research in this area can profit from resea...