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WSC
2000
13 years 9 months ago
Teaching system modeling, simulation and validation
Simulation is used in the design process of dynamic systems. The results of simulation are employed for validating a model, and they are helpful for the improvement of the design ...
Jörg Desel
WSC
2001
13 years 9 months ago
A crowd of little man computers: visual computer simulator teaching tools
This paper describes the use of a particular type of computer simulator as a tool for teaching computer architecture. The Little Man Computer (LMC) paradigm was developed by Stuar...
William Yurcik, Hugh Osborne
PERCOM
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Multiagent Place-Based Virtual Communities for Pervasive Computing
This paper proposes a multiagent based virtual community as a new means to support pervasive computing services. We give a conceptual definition of the concept of Place-Based Virt...
Tuan Nguyen, Seng Wai Loke, Torab Torabi, Hongen L...
AOIS
2003
13 years 9 months ago
I-MINDS: An Agent-Oriented Information System for Applications in Education
Abstract. In this paper, we describe an Intelligent Multiagent Infrastructure for Distributed Systems in Education (or I-MINDS) framework that applies an agent-oriented information...
Leen-Kiat Soh, Xuli Liu, XueSong Zhang, Jameela Al...
VL
2003
IEEE
139views Visual Languages» more  VL 2003»
14 years 1 months ago
Programming in a data factory
Among the advantages of visual dataflow programming is that it can give the user a sense of location for the data in a computation. This can help novices build a mental picture of...
Steven L. Tanimoto