The central issue addressed in the Mind Minding Agents symposium is how theories of the Theory of Mind can inform the design of social agents in multi-agent systems and embodied conversational agents interacting with a human interlocutor. Related to this are the questions on how to build and use computational models of the Theory of Mind. The concept of Theory of Mind has been proposed in the p...

Although some claim that reading moral stories to children will improve their moral literacy (see, e.g., Bennett, 1993), little research has been done that bears on this question. The purposes of this study were to (a) test the idea that children can extract the theme from a moral story and (b) test for developmental differences in moral theme comprehension. Participants from 3rd and 5th grades...

An increasing number of RDF datasets is published on the Web. A user willing to use these datasets will first have to explore them in order to determine which information is relevant for his specific needs. To facilitate this exploration, we present an approach allowing to provide a thematic view of a given RDF dataset, making it easier to target the relevant resources and properties. Our appro...

This paper presents an approach for integrating multiple sources of semantics for the creating metadata. A new framework is proposed to define topics and themes with both manually and automatically generated terms. The automatically generated terms include: terms from a semantic analysis of the collections and terms from previous user’s queries. An interface is developed to facilitate the creat...

In this article we shall survey various generalizations, analogues and deformations of Schur functions — some old, some new — that have been proposed at various times. We shall present these as a sequence of variations on a theme and (unlike e.g. Bourbaki) we shall proceed from the particular to the general. Thus Variations 1 and 2 are included in Variation 3 ; Variations 4 and 5 are particular...

i The Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations (JECO) always energetically searches the new issues to find and deliver to you the most innovative thinking on electronic commerce in organizations. We continue to focus on strategy, innovation, leadership, technology, and organizational change, while widening our coverage to include e-commerce, entrepreneurship, marketing, and finance. This...

The purpose of this study is to investigate how to curtail congestion at theme parks. A method is proposed which involves disseminating congestion information to guests. Based on this method, simulations are carried out to determine the optimum dissemination method. Keywords-Multiagent; simulation; themepark

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Focussing on the "McCabe family" of measures for the decision/logic structure of a program, leads to an evaluation of extensions to modularization, nesting and, potentially, to object-oriented program structures. A comparison of rated, operating and essential complexities of programs suggests two new metrics: 'inessential complexity" as a measure of unstructuredness and "product complexity" as ...