The world itself is a very complex place for architecture agents to act in. The real world is partially observable, stochastic, sequential, dynamic and continuous. Most architecture is designed to only deal with fractions of the total possible environmental complexity by acting in particular domains. For example, some architecture assumes that the world is static and that the only things that c...

current behavioral researches demonstrate that physical environments, i.e., patient rooms and hospitalization space have strong psychological effects on children conditions and cause them some behavioral changes. since children are usually unfamiliar with medical environments, being in such places can cause some sort of stress and anxiety in them. therefore, designing less-stressed environments...

Virtual geographic environments (VGE) are environments pertaining to the relationship between post-humans and 3-D virtual worlds. Post-humans are defined as a combination of humans in the real world with 3-D avatars in 3-D virtual worlds. Five types of space, namely Internet space, data space, 3-D graphical space, personal perceptual and cognitive space, and social space are used to explore the...

In this paper, we address two challenging issues underlying spatial cognitive simulation using software agents immersed in Virtual Geographic Environments (VGE). First, the way to describe virtual VGE models using accurate spatial decomposition approaches structured using graph theory techniques. Second, the use of graph abstraction techniques to realistically support advanced navigation and pa...