Computer aided interactive narrative has received increasing attention in recent years. Automated directorial control that manages the development of the story in the face of user ...
There are a number of competing component models in use today. Most are language-independent, but also platform-dependent and not designed to support a tool-based development para...
PEPA has recently been extended with functional rates [1][2]. These functions allow the specification of indirect interaction between components in such a way that the rate of an a...
Discovering additive structure is an important step towards understanding a complex multi-dimensional function because it allows the function to be expressed as the sum of lower-d...
An advanced processing machine interacts with the material handling system, personnel and cell or shop floor controller in real-time via messaging and control. However, current si...