In this paper we sketch a framework for multi-actor simulation of an organization. In contrast to many approaches to multi-actor simulation, we design the actors as cognitively plausible actors. The interaction and cooperation of the actors is based on social constructs. In elaborating a cognitive perspective on actors, we use the cognitive architecture ACT-R for modelling the individual actors...

Ptolemy II [2] supports the modeling of heterogeneous systems by using a hierarchical component-based architecture and well-defined models of computation. The basic component in Ptolemy II is called an actor. Actors have por t s , which are their communication interface to other actors. An aggregation of actors and their connections is called a comp o s i t e ac tor . A composi te actor can hav...

Using actors from different societal sectors can improve the response operation quality in emergency management. The different roles, tasks and responsibilities these actors have in response operations and the legal frameworks they work within influence their needs for proper information system support. There is thus a substantial need to study and systemize the concept of “new actors” before p...

This paper presents a system dedicated to producing behavioral animation involving autonomous actors. To increase their believability, this system not only allows defining their behavior but also contains an emotional model which generates emotions felt by the actors. These emotions are defined by emergence conditions describing how and when they should emerge. The reactions selected by the act...

If I know of a few persons of interest, how can a combination of human language technology and graph theory help me find other people similarly interesting? If I know of a few people committing a crime, how can I determine their co-conspirators? Given a set of actors deemed interesting, we seek other actors who are similarly interesting. We use a collection of communications encoded as an attri...

Current theoretical arguments highlight a dilemma faced by actors who either adopt a weak or strong commitment strategy for managing their alliances and partnerships. Actors who pursue a weak commitment strategy—i.e. immediately abandon current partners when a more profitable alternative is presented—are more likely to identify the most rewarding alliances. On the other hand, actors who enact a...

The importance of production systems in artificial intelligence has been repeatedly demonstrated by a number of expert systems. Much effort has therefore been expended on finding an efficient processing mechanism to process production systems. While data-flow principles of execution offer the promise of high programmability for numerical computations, we study here variable resolution actors, c...

the basic issue in this article is to analyze the relationships of characters in nezami’s khosrow & shirin by using of greimas’s actors pattern. in nezami’s narrative we found the six actors that greimas mentioned; including: transmitter, recipient, subject, object, helper, and deterrent. according to the results of this article the transmitter is part of khosrow’s character – his unconsciousne...

This paper discusses the problem of simulating the artificial life of realistic synthetic actors. It first presents the development of the general concept of autonomous actors reacting to their environment and taking decisions based on perception systems, memory and reasoning. An example of vision-based animation with an individualized walking model is detailed. Then, we discuss facial animatio...