When creating interactive drama computer games then it is frequently useful to be able to generate a plot to use as a background for the drama and to use as a knowledge base for Non-Player Characters. In this article a new engine is proposed that dynamically creates new game plots for a murder mystery based game. The game engine uses Bayesian networks to create a new plot based on a probability...

Due to ever increasing design sizes, more efficient tools for Automatic Test Pattern Generation (ATPG) are needed. Recently, SAT-based approaches for test pattern generation have been shown to be very efficient even on large industrial circuits. But these SAT-based techniques are not always superior to classical ATPG approaches. An integration of SAT-based engines into the classical ATPG flow c...

Gyu-In Jee is an full Professor in the Department of Electronics Engineering at Konkuk University in Seoul, Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from Case Western Reserve University. He has worked on several GPS related research projects; GPS receiver software design, GPS/INS integration for land vehicle, DGPS system development, GPS engine design using the Mitel chip sets, wirel...

due to timely process of wto negotiations, unwillingness of advanced industrial countries to give concessions to developing economies regarding tariff and non-tariff barriers on agricultural commodity imports, the ongoing initiatives in northern hemisphere to establish new and wider free trading areas which will divert trade out of the market from asian countries, and ineffectiveness of deepeni...

Search Computing has been proposed to support the integration of the results of search engines with other data and computational resources. A key feature of the resulting integration platform is direct support for multi-domain ordered data, reflecting the fact that search engines produce ranked outputs, which should be taken into account when the results of several requests are combined. In the...

the effects of unleaded gasoline and unleaded gasoline–ethanol blends on engine performance and pollutant emissions were investigated experimentally in a single cylinder, four-stroke spark-ignition engine with variable engine speeds (2600–3500 rpm). four different blends on a volume basis were applied. these are e0 (0% ethanol + 100% unleaded gasoline), e3 (3% ethanol + 97% unleaded gasoline), ...

hydrogen is seen as one of the important energy carriers of the future with potential to reduce local as well as global warming. the main by-product of the combustion of hydrogen in air is water vapor and trace quantities of oxides of nitrogen. an experiment was conducted to study the impact of hydrogen/natural gas blends on performance, thermodynamic efficiency and exhaust gas emissions in a r...

In the Life Sciences, numerous questions can be addressed only by comprehensively searching different types of data that are inherently ordered, or are associated with ranked confidence values. We previously proposed Search Computing to support the integration of the results of search engines with other data and computational resources. This paper presents how well known bioinformatics resource...

Much of the research in semantic integration has reduced the problem to ontology integration – two software applications can be integrated by specifying the semantic mappings between their respective ontologies. However, few applications in practice have explicitly specified ontologies, and even when they do, the ontologies are not fully axiomatized (that is, there exist intended interpretation...

The aim of information systems integration is to make all the data sources, applications and business flows integrated into the new environment so that unwanted redundancies are reduced and bottlenecks and mismatches are eliminated. Two issues have to be dealt with to meet such requirements: the software architecture that supports resource integration, and the adaptor development tool that help...