A core requirement of human-like intelligent agents is the ability to create and dynamically maintain mental models of other agents. We suggest that such modeling capabilities must extend beyond traditional notions of “mindreading” to include inferring unobservable features of other agents’ bodies and emotions as well. We describe the modeling of agents endowed with a mind, body and emotions wi...

Two key stylised facts have been established about the extinction patterns of firms. First, the probability of extinction is highest at the start of the firm’s existence, but soon becomes more or less invariant to the age of the firm. Second, a very recent finding, that the relationship between the size and frequency of firm extinctions is closely approximated by a power law. Economic theory ha...

Optimization of reservoir parameters is an important issue in petroleum exploration and production. The Ant Colony Optimization(ACO) is a recent approach to solve discrete and continuous optimization problems. In this paper, the Ant Colony Optimization is usedas an intelligent tool to estimate reservoir rock properties. The methodology is illustrated by using a case study on shear wave velocity...

Thick shells have attracted much attention in recent years as intelligent and functional graded materials because of their unique properties. In this review paper, some critical issues and problems in the development of thick shells made from Functionally graded piezoelectric material (FGPM) are discussed. This review has been conducted on various types of methods which are available for thick ...

Planning has been one of the main research areas in AI. For about three decades AI researchers explore alternative paths to build intelligent agents with advanced planning capabilities. However, the classical AI planning techniques suffer from inapplicability to real world domains, due to several assumptions adopted to facilitate research. Attempts to apply planning into real domains must addre...

Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) that adapt to an individual student’s needs have been shown to be extremely effective, showing significant improvement in achievement over non-adaptive instruction (Murray 1999). The most successful of these systems require the construction of complex cognitive models that are applicable only to a specific tutorial in a specific field, requiring the time of e...

image categorization 10.1 Formulation of the image categorization problem Content based image classification is one of the key technical problems in the era of Internet based image databases. This section proposes a solution to classify abstract images drawn by hand in a wire-line manner. The object recognition system proposed in this chapter is applied to solve this problem. The OEL of the obj...

This paper describes an architecture for the next generation of information gathering systems. The paper is based on a research proposal whose goal is to exploit the vast amount of information sources available today on the NII including a growing number of digital libraries, independent news agencies, government agencies, as well as human experts providing a variety of services. The large numb...

Memory gives us identity, shapes our personality and drives our reactions to different situations in life. We actively create expectations, track the fulfilment of these expectations and dynamically modify our memory when new experiences demand it. Yet up to date, many important social aspects of human memory to artificial intelligent social agents have not been given much attention. Thus, this...