With the rise of the Internet, virtual communities of practice are gaining importance as a mean of sharing and exchanging information. In such environments, information reuse is of...
As system integration becomes an increasingly important challenge for complex real-time systems, there has been a significant demand for supporting real-time systems in virtualiz...
Sisu Xi, Justin Wilson, Chenyang Lu, Christopher D...
Social insects provide us with a powerful metaphor to create decentralized systems of simple interacting, and often mobile, agents. The emergent collective intelligence of social i...
Eric Bonabeau, Andrej Sobkowski, Guy Theraulaz, Je...
This paper gives an overview of the ArchWare European Project1 . The broad scope of ArchWare is to respond to the ever-present demand for software systems that are capable of accom...
We present an extended framework for modelling agent-object interactions in virtual environments. Our framework is based on the concept of Smart Objects and provides agents with p...
Christopher Peters, Simon Dobbyn, Brian MacNamee, ...