The automated detection of aspects of spatial behaviour in an agent-based model is necessary for model testing and analysis. In this paper we compare four predictors of herding behaviour in a model of a grazing herbivore. We find that a) the mean number of neighbours adjusted to account for population variation and b) the mean Hamming distance between rows of the two-dimensional environment can...

Radar warning systems are found in all modern fighter aircraft and their main purpose is to warn pilots of enemy military units such as radar stations, aircraft and missiles. Testing these systems for fighters in real life is an expensive, complex and somewhat dangerous task. Hence engineers aim to test these systems in an artificial environment by the use of software in order to simulate hour-...

Information technology affects in all aspects of human activity, and education is not exception, so its impact on education and training is inevitable. A digitally literate citizen will be able to learn and take responsibility for their learning so this results in a higher demand for education and feel of the needs for more equipment and tools. By spreading the use of World Wide Web, internet a...

Basic tasks and problems of market information management in economic organizations are presented in this paper. Identifying these problems – on the basis of the conducted survey – became the base to develop the general architecture of the agent system aiding market information management. AgentBuilderPro1.4® software of Acronymics, Inc. was chosen to be the development environment. Functions t...

For the past sixteen years the Collaborative Agent Design Research Center (CADRC) at the California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), San Luis Obispo has pursued the design and development of agent-based decision-support systems. Throughout this journey the CADRC has relied on a suite of development tools that greatly assist in the creation and management of such systems. This suite of t...

In this paper the concept of an ad hoc agent environment as a way for users to interact with an ambient intelligent environment is introduced. Utilizing agents, users can interact on a level that best suits their needs and capabilities, leaving tedious chores to the agents. The user interacts with this environment as a whole, instead of interacting with individual applications on individual dev...

If teachers use few ILEs (Interactive Learning Environments) with their students, it may be because they don’t have the opportunity to act upon the available environments. To permit the adoption of ILEs by teachers, these systems must be adaptable to the learning context and to the teacher’s pedagogical approach. To achieve this we propose a module dedicated to the teacher in the context of the...

Collaborative software development presents a variety of coordination and communication problems, particularly when teams are geographically distributed. One reason for these problems is the difficulty of staying aware of others – keeping track of information about who is working on the project, who is active, and what tasks people have been working on. Current software development environments...

In this paper, we discuss interaction interoperability in Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVE), intended to mean the ability of two or more users to cooperate despite the heterogeneity of their interfaces. To allow such interoperability, rather than focusing on the de-coupling of input devices from interaction techniques and from interaction tasks, we suggest integrating interactive systems...

Reliability and continued use of software components are ongoing issues in pharmaceutical industry. There has been little done to standardize Data Management development processes. The primary goals for Global Integrated DataBase(GIDB) is to reduce or eliminate problems of data definition discrepancies during data management support for clinical trials. Once the work on the front-end is streaml...