When designing and implementing real world ambient intelligent systems we are in need of applicable information systems engineering methods. The tools we find in the intelligent systems area focus on the knowledge engineering parts, whereas traditional software engineering techniques are usually not designed with the peculiarities of intelligent systems design in mind. This holds in particular ...

Development of the integrated expert systems with the task-oriented methodology and the problems of the intellectualization of AT-TECHNOLOGY workbench are reviewed. Intelligent planning methods applied for tutoring IES development processes are described with usage of the intelligent planner, reusable components, typical design procedures, and another intelligent program environment components....

Today there are numerous tools for decision analysis that run on ordinary PCs, designed primarily for use by human decision-makers. However, not only humans make decisions. Intelligent agents are also faced with decision problems. In this paper we investigate if any of the computerized tools for decision analysis are useful for artificial decision-makers. Special attention is given to real-time...

Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) are animated characters that interact with humans and with each other using natural modalities such as speech and gestures. Creation of successful IVA applications is challenging since development requires integration of a broad range of specialized tools and skills. We present a discussion of the advantages and technical challenges of using the Second Life pro...

The Intelligent Vehicle Initiative (IVI) provides vehicle-based tools that could assist drivers in reacting both more rapidly and effectively to a range of external stimuli. Intelligent or adaptive cruise control systems (ICC or ACC), for example, attempt to assist drivers in better maintaining a safe headway under normal driving conditions. In addition, automatic braking systems may provide ad...

The AXIOM project is a collaboration between researchers in knowledge representation (KR), markup languages such as XML, linguistic analysis, text encoding, databases, humanities computing, and other related fields, whose goal is to develop technologies that will enable a large scale digital library. The central theme of the project is the exploitation of “intelligent tools” and “intelligent te...

An intelligent tutoring system (ITS) is software that provides an interactive learning environment and can adapt its instruction depending on user needs. The development of these systems is expensive due to significant resource requirements. To ease the development process of these systems, technologies such as authoring tools and shells are sometimes used. In this paper a new java framework is...

The complexity of software design raised the need for intelligent design assistants, especially in Computer Aided Software Engineering tools. But an efficient and effective design system capable of helping the software designer must address important issues in human-machine communication. At the AI Lab of Coimbra University we are developing an Intelligent Computer Aided Software Engineering to...

The need for intelligent tools for all stages of a product's lifecycle is becoming increasingly important with the increasing system complexity, shorter product life cycles, lower production costs, and changing technologies. This paper is a brief review of the features such as characteristic linearization, curve fitting, auto-calibration and fault diagnosis of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) ...

This paper will present a vision for intelligent information processing for Command and Control (C2) in the 21st century This vision will describe: (1) the role, utilization and impact of knowledge base (KB) technology within an IIS, (2) the need to assess intelligent information system’s (IIS), (3) a proposed methodology to assess IIS’s, and (4) a model architecture environment, called the Int...