Easy access to external information is essential to the performance of many information-intensive activities conducted in computer application systems. However, information repository systems that support the retrieval of external information are researched as a self-contained problem with no consideration of the context where the information is applied. We propose the concept of information-en...

Agent-based simulations are useful for studying people’s movement and to help making decisions in situations like emergency evacuation in smart environments. These agent-based simulations are typically used as offline tools and do not assimilate real time data from the environment. With more and more smart buildings equipped with sensor devices, it is possible to utilize real time sensor data t...

Revised: September 30th, 2007 ABSTRACT. In this paper, we discuss the social intelligence that renders affective behaviours of intelligent agents, and its application to a collaborative learning system. We argue that socially appropriate affective behaviours would provide a new dimension for collaborative learning systems. The description of a system to recognize the six universal facial expres...

one of the major aspects of quality of life is place-attachment which is affected by human-nature interactions. looking at such a critical issue in human settlements requires the study of the relationship between architecture and nature. it is a critical issue in the contemporary literature of built environment and is discussed in specific frameworks such as phenomenology and environmental psyc...

as claimed by many behavioral scientists, designing should be based on the knowledge of interaction between human and environment. environmental quality is also created in the context in which humans interact with their environment. to achieve such quality, designers should develop appropriate models for explaining this relationship, and this requires an understanding of human nature and the en...

This paper outlines an approach to provide adaptive user interfaces [5] for services provided by intelligent software agents in smart environments. After motivating the need for adaptive user interfaces, we propose how to achieve adaptivity at different levels by describing the basic ideas behind our implementation.

Present research on wireless sensor networks has focused on routing and security independently. In this paper, we present a Secure, Cluster-based, Energy Aware Routing (SCEAR) scheme that provides both a hierarchal energy aware routing and a secure environment for communication. In our approach, the network is divided into clusters with a cluster-head that aggregates the information and securel...

We will present an agent-based architecture, Genie of the Net, for context -aware systems that are used as components of an intelligent environment and manage services on behalf of the user. We will also discuss the need for knowledge representations. Furthermore, we will present information management and event scheduling as our primary application area and discuss the application we are worki...

As the affiliation network of churches may potentially benefit public health, the impact of participants’ preferences on the affiliation network bears further study. This paper attempts to use agentbased modeling techniques associated with geographic information to study the affiliation network between churches and participants. Using churches in ZIP Code 30318 in Atlanta in Georgia, this study...

ion Gradient Both VisualAge for Java and Java Studio are based on the JavaBean component model implemented by Java; so they are object-oriented systems. Prograph can be used a full object-oriented programming environment. Therefore, these environments have all abstraction mechanisms that an object-oriented language offers.