Emotions play a critical role in creating engaging and believable characters to populate virtual worlds. Our goal is to create general computational models to support characters t...
Affect has been the subject of increasing attention in cognitive accounts of learning. Many intelligent tutoring systems now seek to adapt pedagogy to student affective and motivat...
Jennifer L. Robison, Scott W. McQuiggan, James C. ...
In this paper we propose an approach to support dynamic or runtime variability in systems that must adapt dynamically to changing runtime context. The approach is founded on refle...
Nelly Bencomo, Gordon S. Blair, Carlos A. Flores-C...
Intelligent agents are typically situated in a social environment and must reason about social cause and effect. Such reasoning is qualitatively different from physical causal rea...
Current distributed parallel platforms can provide the resources required to execute a scientific application efficiently. However, when these platforms are shared by multiple use...