This document summarises my research in the area of RealTime Strategy (RTS) video game Artificial Intelligence (AI). The main objective of this research is to increase the quality of AI used in commercial RTS games, which has seen little improvement over the past decade. This objective will be addressed by investigating the use of a learning by observation, case-based reasoning agent, which can...

In this paper we propose a new scheduling algorithm called Real Time Scheduling (RTS) which uses virtual nodes for self stabilization. This algorithm deals with all the contributing components of the end-to-end travelling delay of data packets in sensor network and with virtual nodes algorithm achieves QoS in terms of packet delivery, multiple connections, better power management and stable rou...

The primary aim of this investigation was to test the hypothesis that the urge to smoke interferes directly with cognitive performance. Fifty-four smokers were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 groups: (a). ad lib, (b). deprived, or (c). nicotine patch. Participants rated their urge to smoke on continuous visual analogue scales. Cognitive performance was determined by measuring reaction times (RTs) o...

RTS: Rothmund-Thomson syndrome INTRODUCTION Rothmund-Thomson syndrome (RTS) (OMIM #268400) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by erythema, blisters, and swelling that appears during infancy on the cheeks, spreads to the extremities, and eventually leads to poikiloderma. Additionally, a large percentage of patients have short stature and skeletal abnormalities, and some patient...

As MOSFETs shrink into the decanano regime it is predicted that random telegraph signals (RTS), resulting from trapping events in defect states near the Si/SiO2 interface, will significantly affect analogue and digital circuit performance. At these same scales, intrinsic parameter fluctuations introduced by atomic differences between devices will also be significant. In this work, a methodology...

Relatively little is known about the interaction between a bilingual’s two languages beyond the word level. This paper investigates the issue by comparing word reading times (RTs) in both L1 and L2 to quantitative predictions by statistical language models. Recurrent neural networks are trained on either a Dutch corpus, an English corpus, or the two corpora combined (i.e., the bilingual network...

Rhabdoid tumours (RTs) are highly aggressive tumours of infancy, frequently localized in the central nervous system (CNS) where they are termed atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumours (AT/RTs) and characterized by bi-allelic inactivation of the SMARCB1 tumour suppressor gene. In this study, by temporal control of tamoxifen injection in Smarcb1(flox/flox);Rosa26-Cre(ERT2) mice, we explore the phenoty...

Introduction: Oral and dental (OD) disorders in children with Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome (RTS) are frequent but not well-known by dentists pediatricians due to the being extremely rare. Objective: To describe OD findings observed a 5-year-old girl RTS update literature. Clinical case: The patient presented following manifestations: prominent lower lip, narrow mouth opening, arched palate, histor...

The reusability of CMCs with inherently high-temperature capabilities and ablation resistance goes through understanding the effects residual thermal stresses (RTS) caused by expansion mismatch between fibre matrix. In this work, RTS ultra-high temperature ZrB2–SiC based ceramic reinforced carbon fibres was dependent on anisotropy coating. A detailed microstructural analysis about state matrix ...

A vehicle system dynamics model is presented that captures the essential braking and handling behavior of a passenger car and runs faster than real-time on a Pentium 233 MHz computer. The simulation code was generated with the AutoSim mutlbody code generator and linked with C functions that communicate with braking hardware to create a real-time simulation (RTS) with hardware in the loop (HITL)...