Lodewijk XVIII in Gent.

Adaptive Combination of Behaviors in an gent

Agents are of interest mainly when confronted with complex tasks. We propose a methodology for the automated design of such agents (in the framework of Markov Decision Processes) in the case where the global task can be decomposed into simpler -possibly concurrentsub-tasks. This is accomplished by automatically combining basic behaviors using Reinforcement Learning methods. The main idea is to ...

The Gent–McWilliams Skew Flux

This paper formulates tracer stirring arising from the Gent–McWilliams (GM) eddy-induced transport in terms of a skew-diffusive flux. A skew-diffusive tracer flux is directed normal to the tracer gradient, which is in contrast to a diffusive tracer flux directed down the tracer gradient. Analysis of the GM skew flux provides an understanding of the physical mechanisms prescribed by GM stirring,...

2 Overview of A GENT S CAPE

Virtual environments have a variety of uses, ranging from entertainment to simulation of hard-to-create environments for training and testing purposes. A common feature of virtual environments, especially those aimed at entertainment, is the presence of virtual entities we call agents, characters or objects in the virtual world possessing human characteristics and able to interact pro-actively ...

Xviii. Protein Metabolism in Cystinuria

Xviii. Speech Communication'

The objectives of our work are to further our understanding of (a) the process whereby human listeners decode an acoustic speech signal into a sequence of discrete linguistic symbols, such as phonemes; and (b) the process whereby human talkers encode a sequence of discrete linguistic symbols into an acoustic signal. Current research activities related to these objectives include studies, aided ...