On the Prose Allegory Sab ras

From SAB to SAB Four Years of Animat Research

This paper builds on a previous review of signif icant research on adaptive behavior in animats It summarizes the current state of the art and sug gests some directions likely to provide interesting results in the near future

From SAB 94 to SAB 2000 : What ' s New , Animat ?

An Allegory of the Hill

I n his farewell address to the nation, President Eisenhower told Americans that the military–industrial complex offered enormous potential for abuse if not properly constrained. The problem has become much larger than he imagined. We now have a selfsustaining and self-regulating national militaryindustrial-surveillance-politicalmedia-prison-energy-academicreligious-medical-legal-think-tank com...

PROSE: a study on dynamic AOP

An obvious prerequisite for both fixed and mobile computing is the ability to adapt (i) to different computing environments or (ii) to external changes occurred in their current computing environment. Otherwise the services are forced to be foreseen with everything they may possibly need during their operationallife time. This is neither desirable nor feasible, thereby hinting at the need for d...

The Janeway Medal and its allegory.