We present a real-time strategy (RTS) game AI agent that integrates multiple specialist components to play a complete game. Based on an analysis of how skilled human players conceptualize RTS gameplay, we partition the problem space into domains of competence seen in expert human play. This partitioning helps us to manage and take advantage of the large amount of sophisticated domain knowledge ...

Compact vision systems capable of capturing images at high speed and interpreting them to give users high-level information on the scene are increasingly becoming available to serve a range of real-time applications. This paper discusses the reality of miniaturised vision systemson-chip, the challenges which face their design, and their feasibility using modern and perhaps future technologies.

In this paper, we report on the status of the RoboCupJunior league, four years after it was founded. Since its inception in 2000, we have been surveying and/or interviewing students and mentors who participate in the international event. Here we present a high-level overview of this data. We discuss demographics of participants, characteristics of preparation and educational value. We highlight...

We give a translation of the visual description technique DiCharts to the synchronous language PURR. As a result, the design of a system can start with a graphical description technique at a very high-level and can then be automatically translated to the synchronous language PURR. This translation allows the further synthesis of the system and in particular, its verification.

Although information and communication technologies is beneficial for improving employee performance, frequently learning new technologies or extensively using technologies to work in non-working hours may lead to an increase of employee’s techno-invasion. However, little is known whether techno-invasion, a technostressor, causes employee job anxiety. Also, it remains unclear “when” techno-inva...

The use of video and audio features for automated annotation of audio-visual data is becoming widespread. A major limitation of many of the current methods is that the stored indexing features are too low-level — they relate directly to properties of the data. In this work we apply a further stage of processing that associates the feature measurements with real-world objects or events. The outp...

Model management tools contain common aspects that are frequently reinvented for each tool. Platform specific solutions to common problems may vary by language, however, the high-level specifications should be the same. Design patterns seek to communicate these common specifications in an abstract way that enables reuse, improves understanding and eases communication. In this paper, we present ...

You probably think of nineteenth century Great Britain as a place without any substantial social safety net aside from the Church. In fact, England had a well-developed welfare system in the nineteenth century, with local government functionaries dispensing cash. Early in the nineteenth century, low-level British functionaries knew almost all the people who were coming before them to appeal for...