The artificial intelligence (AI) components of computer games often appear to be very complex, possibly having abilities beyond the state of the art in computer generated forces. In this paper we study the similarities and differences between AIs for computer games and computer generated forces (CGFs). We contrast the goals of AIs and CGFs, their behavioral requirements, and the underlying reso...

STIM1 and Orai1 are the main components of a widely conserved Calcium influx pathway known as store-operated calcium entry (SOCE). STIM1 is a calcium sensor, which oligomerizes and activates Orai channels when calcium levels drop inside the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). The series of molecular rearrangements that STIM1 undergoes until final activation of Orai1 require the direct exposure of the S...

We are building a robot cognitive architecture that constructs a real-time virtual copy of itself and its environment, including people, and uses the model to process perceptual information and to plan its movements. This paper describes the structure of this architecture. The software components of this architecture include PhysX for the virtual world, OpenCV and the Point Cloud Library for vi...

We developed knowledge-rich agents to play real-time strategy games by interfacing the ORTS game engine to the Soar cognitive architecture. The middleware we developed supports grouping, attention, coordinated path finding, and FSM control of low-level unit behaviors. The middleware attempts to provide information humans use to reason about RTS games, and facilitates creating agent behaviors in...

The on-demand routing protocols that have been proposed to date use either path information (e.g., DSR) or distance information (e.g., AODV). We present SOAR, an on-demand link-state protocol based on partial link-state information in which a wireless router communicates to its neighbors the link states of only those links in its source tree that belong to the paths it chooses to advertise for ...

The SOAR telescope in Chile is dedicated to high angular resolution. For this reason it will be equipped with an AO instrument, the SOAR Adaptive Module (SAM), that will be able to improve the image quality by a factor of 2 to 5 in the visible, thanks to a partial correction of the first few kilometers of the atmosphere. TurSim is the turbulence simulator designed for SAM, and consists of teles...