Interest is growing in the application of Knowledge Based Expert Systems ( KBES ) to assist in solving problems in the construction discipline. A number of major research and / or development projects are under way in various US institutions, however, as of the summer of1985, the number was small considering the potential of this new technology .'. A few of the larger design and construction co...

In this paper we provide an integrated platform composed of several ICT tools enabling traceability of information between individual steps of collaborative policy modelling process proposed by the OCOPOMO project. This process combines collaborative creation and analysis of narrative scenarios with agent-based simulation models. The policy model for a given domain is created iteratively, by me...

This study extends previous research that showed how informal social sanctions can backfire when members prefer friendship over enforcement of group norms. We use a type of neural network to model the coordination of informal social control in a small group of adaptive agents confronted with a social dilemma. This model incorporates two mechanisms of social influence, informal sanctions and imi...

The purpose of this study aims at helping students define plagiarism by using a discourse analysis approach within the text of a model paper for advanced students interested in writing research papers. Inexperienced researchers are often tempted to commit several types of plagiarism across disciplines in academia. These intentional and unintentional patterns of plagiarism, which have something ...

Many organizations are moving toward greater use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components in the development of application systems. The development of component-based systems inlroduces fundamental changes in the way systems are acquired, integrated, deployed and evolved. In this paper we present a reference model for the assembly of component-based systems that can be used as the basis f...

Inspired by the chemotaxis interaction of living cells, we have developed an agent-based approach for self-organizing shape formation. Since all our simulations begin with a different uniform random configuration and our agents move stochastically, it has been observed that the self-organization process may form two or more stable final configurations. These differing configurations may be char...

Location-based applications and services become increasingly important for mobile users. They take into account a mobile user's current location and provide a location-dependent output. To support developers of location-based services, the Nimbus framework hides specific details of positioning systems and provides uniform output containing physical as well as symbolic location information, whic...

Peer-to-peer organization of Grid resource discovery services would have several desirable features, including high scalability, high reliability, self-organization and self-healing. In this paper, we describe challenges in applying P2P techniques to Grid services. These include the choice of overlay configuration and varying security requirements for Grid and P2P environments. We present the d...

Today, more and more organizations rely upon the competencies of their staffs. This increasing reliance on competence has triggered many organizations to implement competence systems in order to support staff allocation and competence development. Competence systems can be characterized as systems that describe and present measures of individuals’ competencies. Even though the implemented compe...