It is becoming more important to design systems capable of performing high-level management and control tasks in interactive dynamic environments. At the same time, it is difficul...
We present a case study on the design of a heterogeneous architecture for MPEG-2 video decoding. The primary objective of the case study is the validation of the SPADE methodology...
Pieter van der Wolf, Paul Lieverse, Mudit Goel, Da...
Intelligence, collaboration and mobility are the main important features in designing agents for electronic commercial systems. But very few systems permit to implement agents whi...
Performance characteristics, such as response time, throughput and scalability, are key quality attributes of distributed applications. Current practice, however, rarely applies s...
This paper proposes an emotion model for life-like agents with emotions and motivations. This model consists of reactive and deliberative mechanisms. The former generates low-leve...