In this report, we present MadKit (multi-agent development kit), a generic multi-agent platform. This toolkit is based on a organizational model. It uses concepts of groups and roles for agents to manage different agent models and multi-agent systems at the same time, while keeping a global structure. We discuss the architecture of MadKit, based on a minimalist agent kernel decoupled from speci...

Emotions can be defined as multi-componential, including subjective feeling, appraisals, reactions in the service of action preparation and expressions, action tendencies (including expressions), and regulation (compare Scherer, 2005; Frijda, 2007). A central component of emotions, the “feeling component,” is inherently subjective and can only be assessed with selfreport measures, such as the G...

We examine the advantages and disadvantages of 2 types of analyses used in interpersonal perception studies: componential and noncomponential. Componential analysis of interpersonal perception data (Kenny, 1994) partitions a judgment into components and then estimates the variances of and the correlations between these components. A noncomponential analysis uses raw scores to analyze interperso...

A componential model capable of representing simple and complex forms of mental addition was proposed and then tested by using chronometric techniques. A sample of 23 undergraduate students responded to 800 addition problems in a true-false reaction time paradigm. The 800 problems comprised 200 problems of each of four types: two single-digit addends, one single- and one double-digit addend, tw...

Psychological theories of emotion have often defined an as simultaneous changes in several mental and bodily components. In addition, appraisal assume that component elicits the other components (e.g., motivational, behavioural, experiential). Neither componential definition nor theory been systematically translated to paradigms for induction, many which rely on passive induction without a clea...

In this two-stage empirical research, the authors attempted to study the impact of promoting translation sub-competences defined by PACTE's Multi-Componential Model for Translation Competence on the promotion of total translation competence as the first stage. The experiment for this purpose was conducted on a group of Iranian undergraduate students comprising of their exposure to a targeted sy...

This paper shows how Componential Explanation as discussed within Cognitive Science and Philosophy of Science relates to Compositional Verification in Computer Science. It is shown how formal techniques and methods developed for Compositional Verification provide a formal basis and automated support for Componential Explanation. The role of formalised interlevel relations is shown to be crucial...

This paper (Part 1) describes the principles of a novel unsupervised adaptive neural network anomaly detection technique, called componential coding, in the context of condition monitoring of electrical machines. Numerical examples are given to illustrate the technique’ s capabilities. The companion paper (Part 2), which follows, assesses componential coding in its application to real data reco...