We sketch VIVA, a new agent-oriented programming language based on the theory of VIVid Agents presented in [Wag96a]. VIVA follows the AOP paradigm of [Sho93] but is, in a sense, more conservative by adopting as many concepts as possible from SQL and Prolog. This concerns, e.g., the distinction between the schema and the state of an agent, or the use of facts and rules with negation-as-failure, ...

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In the European Esprit project VIVA (Visual Identity Verification Auditor) a real-time digital watermarking system for broadcast monitoring has been investigated and implemented. On top of the usual requirements for watermarks, the VIVA watermarking system has to satisfy an additional number of constraints. One of the most important constraints in a broadcast environment is the robustness of th...

The disparity between microprocessor clock frequencies and memory latency is a primary reason why many demanding applications run well below peak achievable performance. Software controlled scratchpad memories, such as the Cell local store, attempt to ameliorate this discrepancy by enabling precise control over memory movement; however, scratchpad technology confronts the programmer and compile...

A recent review has provided evidence in support of new nd alternative methods for CPR training.1 Among these, are he “serious games”, which are applications developed using omputer game technologies more often associated with enterainment, but characterized by a serious purpose. Indeed, during he last decade, many serious games have been developed and sed successfully in the field of health, i...

PhD Thesis written by Roser Morante Vallejo at Tilburg University under the supervision of Harry Bunt (Tilburg Univ.). The thesis defence (viva voce) took place before the committee formed by doctors David Traum (Univ. of Southern California), Michael McTear (Univ. of Ulster), Reinhard Muskens (Tilburg Univ.), Emiel Krahmer (Tilburg Univ.) and Robbert-Jan Beun (Utrecht Univ.) on the 3rd of Dece...

This paper describes the Viva File System or VIFS, a technique for highperformance file allocation on disks. VIFS uses bitmaps to represent both free blocks on the disk and allocated blocks in each file. Allocation bitmaps provide a very fast method of finding blocks close to the last allocated block in a file. Fragments (partial blocks) are used to store the overflow from the last file block; ...

In their article ‘The inconsistency of the h-index’ Ludo Waltman and Nees Jan van Neck give three examples to demonstrate the inconsistency of the h-index. As will be shown below, a little extension of their examples just illustrate the opposite, a stable feature of the h-index. For starting authors it, the h-index that is, focusses on the number of articles; for experienced authors its focus s...