Reports of applications that include agent-based models of human behaviour tend to focus on the applications themselves and the success of the modelling exercise. They give little (if any) information on the process used to construct the models. Those who attempt to construct models of human behaviour quickly realise that this is a non-trivial task. This paper presents a methodological approach...

Theories of music evolution agree that human music has an affective influence on listeners. Tests of non-humans provided little evidence of preferences for human music. However, prosodic features of speech ('motherese') influence affective behaviour of non-verbal infants as well as domestic animals, suggesting that features of music can influence the behaviour of non-human species. We incorpora...

The biology of human sexuality: evolution, ecology and physiology Many evolutionary biologists argue that human sexual behaviour can be studied in exactly the same way as that of other species. Many sociologists argue that social influences effectively obscure, and are more important than, a reductionist biological approach to human sexual behaviour. Here,we authors attempt to provide a broad i...

In this research, behaviour of clayey soils under triaxial loading is studied using Neural Network. The models have been prepared to predict the stress-strain behaviour of remolded clays under undrained condition. The advantage of the model developed is that simple parameters such as physical characteristics of soils like water content, fine content, Atterberg limits and so on, are used to mode...

The non-verbal behaviour of an embodied conversational agent is normally based on recorded human behaviour. There are two main ways that the mapping from human behaviour to agent behaviour has been implemented. In some systems, human behaviour is analysed, and then rules for the agent are created based on the results of that analysis; in others, the recorded behaviour is used directly as a reso...

The discipline of Music-AI is defined as that activity which seeks to program computers to perform musical tasks in an intelligent, which possibly means humanlike way. A brief historical survey of different approaches within the discipline is presented. Two particular issues arise: the explicit representation of knowledge; and symbolic and subsymbolic representation and processing. When attempt...

Recently, a new approach of upstream detection of BVD virus in raw, unprocessed FBS has been described. This is a sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (S-ELISA) designed to detect presence of BVD virus in the serum, using a commercially available diagnostic kit (Syracuse Bioanalytical, Syracuse, NY). In this study, the S-ELISA kit that uses raw (unprocessed) FBS as the testing sample was ...

Please cite this article in press as: Faragó, T Behaviour (2010), doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.201 A number of species are considered to use functionally referential signals such as alarm calls or foodrelated vocalizations. However, this particular function of communicative interaction has not previously been found in canids. We provide the first experimental indication that domestic dogs, Canis famil...