This paper describes a meta-model, MAM, supporting both behavioral and declarative knowledge representation in a Sensible Agent. The paper also provides an example in the air defense domain.

Sensible Agents have been engineered to solve distributed problems in complex, uncertain, and dynamic domains. Each Sensible Agent is composed of four modules (the Action Planner, Perspective Modeler, Conflict Resolution Advisor, and Autonomy Reasoner). These modules endow Sensible Agents with the ability to plan, model, resolve individual conflicts, and change agent system organization. Two co...

In this paper, Extended Statecharts are used as a comprehensive modeling mechanism for the behavior modeling of Sensible Agents. Extended Statecharts allow for the explicit representation of declarable problem-specific agent soft failures, thereby allowing for failure related information to be incorporated within the high level system design. An example of an air defense system is used to illus...

Authentication, the process of identifying an individual, currently plays a critical role in security systems. Graphical password schemes are believed to be more secure and resilient to dictionary attacks than traditional textual passwords. We designed a graphical password system with the novelty of incorporating the sense of touch via haptic technologies. Using haptics, the system utilizes the...

In this introduction I try to bring together the commonalities of articles which are about many different topics, including food, nationalism, rituals, creation icons, importance tourism, language, and celebrations that give meaning lives very diverse people. Perhaps Middle East as crescent civilisation can be comprehended in a nutshell collection articles, written mostly by anthropologists but...