It has been becoming more and more important to design systems capable of performing high-level management and control tasks in interactive dynamic environments. Meanwhile the traditional software techniques are not sufficient enough to be applied to develop and maintain such complex systems. The agent-oriented/based systems, rooted in a different view of computational entities, offer prospects...

Predicting the interestingness of images or videos can greatly improve people’s satisfaction in many applications, such as video retrieval and recommendations. In this paper, we present our methods in the 2017 Predicting Media Interestingness Task. We propose deep ranking model based on aural and visual modalities which simulates the human annotation procedures for more reliable interestingness...

An agent acquiring information about its environment, either by observation or by communication with other agents, must update its beliefs about the environment. In this way the agent keeps track of the changes in its environment. Usually the agent will not be able to perceive the environment completely. Since most environments do not change very fast over time, the agent may assume that everyt...

This paper presents a novel approach to a self-learning agent who collects and learns new knowledge from the web and exchanges her knowledge via dialogues with the users. The application domain is gossip about celebrities in the music world. The agent can inform herself and update the acquired knowledge by observing the web. Fans of musicians can ask for gossip information about stars, bands or...

This paper proposes an agent programming language called AgentSpeak(I). This new language allows agent programs (1) to effectively perform while having incomplete knowledge of the environment, (2) to detect no-longer possible goals and re-plan these goals correspondingly, and (3) to behave reactively to changes of environment. Specifically, AgentSpeak(I) uses default theory as agent belief theo...

We secure information either in private or government sector as it has become an essential requirement. System vulnerabilities and valuable information magnetize most attackers’ attention. Traditional approaches that are used for intrusion detection, such as firewalls or encryption are not sufficient to prevent system from all attack types. Subsequently the number of attacks through network and...

The complex of polyinosinate with polycytidylate (poly IC) has been attached to solid carriers which can be suspended in the medium over the cell monolayer; it has also been attached to surfaces which may be overgrown by the cell monolayer. Interferon production and antivirus protection achieved by these inducer systems were measured and it was found that such anchored poly IC conveyed antiviru...