This paper describes how personalities influence the behaviour of emotional agents. Two different emotional models are discussed, namely the OCC emotion model and the emotion-connectionist model. In both models personalities changes the behaviour on a different way. This paper also presents an implementation of a prototype to evaluate the performance of the different personalities in the emotio...

Business Re-engineering requires frequent changes in the enterprises' information systems, however the current technology of data dictionaries is not eeective for the tracing of required changes and their management. In this paper we introduce an architecture of change management using active temporal repositories. Flexible change management allows the support of information about past or futur...

Introduction: Inappropriate administration of antimicrobials has led to increased antibiotic resistance as well as burden of infectious diseases. Antibiotic stewardship programs (ASPs) help prevent resistance through improved utilization of antimicrobial agents while potentially decrease costs of treatment. Method: We reviewed 186 infectious disease (ID) consultations from two internal disea...

E xchange rate is an important factor influencing price indices of exported goods of a country in different ways. Imported intermediate commodity is one of the important ways by which the change in exchange rate affects price indices of the exported goods. Using the input-output table of Iran for the year 2001, this paper investigates the impact of exchange rate devaluation on price ...

Computational agents which make use of behaviour change models have the potential to help motivate people to change problematic behaviour. The importance of emotion simulation in behaviour change agents is discussed, along with an overview of a behaviour change model (the Transtheoretical Model [1]) that computational agents can make use of. Experiments that will investigate these areas further...

As food supply practices must adapt to the reality of limited natural resources, alternative solutions be found meet dietary needs a growing world population. Edible insect consumption represents sustainable substitute that conventional meat. Psychological barriers are largely responsible for dictating Westerners’ aversion towards eating. adolescents have been less exposed socio-cultural constr...