Digital entertainment industry uses multi-agents techniques based on several different approaches to establish autonomous characters that behave the most believable way as possible. This article presents a preliminary version of an agent architecture based on psychological and neurobiological theories. We expect that this architecture could facilitate implementation of synthetic believable char...

We present a hierarchical control system for the dynamic resource management of a distributed real-time embedded (DRE) system. This DRE is inspired by the DARPA Adaptive and Reflective Middleware Systems (ARMS) program. The goal of the control system is to simultaneously manage multiple resources and QoS concerns. The control system is scalable and uses a utility-driven approach for decisionmak...

As envisioned and implemented so far, the enlargement process is long-term and has neither milestones nor deadlines for completion. It is an open process that in principle does not reject beforehand the membership of any European country (as stipulated in Article 10 of the Washington Treaty). Since early 1994, NATO has committed itself to a gradual and transparent process of enlargement, althou...

abstract— in this paper, a new extended method of multi criteria decision making based on fuzzy-topsis theory is introduced. fuzzy mcdm algorithm for determining the best choice among all possible choices when the data are fuzzy is also presented. using a new index leads to procedure for choosing fuzzy ideal and negative ideal solutions directly from the fuzzy data observed alternatives.in this...

We describe a process for automatically detecting decision-making sub-dialogues in transcripts of multi-party, human-human meetings. Extending our previous work on action item identification, we propose a structured approach that takes into account the different roles utterances play in the decisionmaking process. We show that this structured approach outperforms the accuracy achieved by existi...