Planning processes are often used in dialogue systems to recognize the intentions conveyed in dialogue. The generation of utterances can also be achieved by a planning/execution mechanism. Some advantages of this kind of mechanism are: knowledge sharing, modular design, declarative description, etc. In this paper, we present some planning mechanisms and the related models enabling the dialogue ...

This paper introduces the concept of modularity as an approach to therapeutic protocol design and application. Modularity is defined in terms of four key properties, and a detailed example of a modular psychotherapy protocol is presented. By explicitly outlining clinical strategies and algorithms, modular design of psychotherapy protocols provides a promising framework for testing many of the a...

We present Fun2maS, the Milan Robocup Team. In its implementation we have faced many aspects: hardware (electronics, mechanics), sensors (omnidirectional vision), behaviors (fuzzy behaviors management and composition), multi-agent coordination (strategy and tactics), and adaptation of the team behavior. We could fully exploit the characteristics of all the components thanks to the modular desig...

In the early 1950s, von Holst and Mittelstaedt proposed that motor commands copied within the central nervous system (efference copy) help to distinguish ‘reafference’ activity (afference activity due to self-generated motion) from ‘exafference’ activity (afference activity due to external stimulus). In addition, an efference copy can be also used to compare it with the actual sensory feedback ...

This paper describes the mechanical design of the ARAMIES integration study, a four legged robot. It combines newly developed electronic, mechanical , and software components building a fully functional ambulating system. The mechanical concept aims at flexible kinematics and robustness of all components. Therefore, a modular construction kit with specially designed parts is used.

We present the design and evaluation of ITMgen, a tool for generating synthetic but representative Interdomain Traffic Matrices (ITMs). ITMgen is motivated by the observation that gravity-based models do not reflect application level or regional characteristics of Internet traffic. ITMgen works at the level of connections, taking into account the relative sizes of ASes, their popularity with re...

Nowadays achieving green software by reducing the overall energy consumption of the software is becoming more and more important. A wellknown solution is to make the software energy-aware by extending its functionality with energy optimizers, which monitor the energy consumption of software and adapt it accordingly. Modular design of energy-aware software is necessary to make the extensions man...

The proper handling of temporal process constraints is crucial in many application domains. A sophisticated support of time-aware processes, however, is still missing in contemporary information systems. As a particular challenge, temporal constraints must be also handled for modularized processes (i.e., processes comprising subprocesses), enabling the reuse of process knowledge as well as the ...

The use of subprocesses in large process models is an important step in modeling practice to handle complexity. While there are several advantages attributed to such a modular design, including ease of reuse, scalability, and enhanced understanding, the lack of precise guidelines turns out to be a major impediment for applying modularity in a systematic way. In this paper we approach this area ...

We present a new scalable fault-tolerant algorithm which ensures total order delivery of messages sent to multiple groups of processes. Our algorithm is particularly well suited for large scale systems because: (1) any process can multicast a message to one or more groups of processes without being forced to join those groups; (2) inter-group total order is ensured system-wide but, for each ind...