Virtual storytelling often uses a fixed, pre-scripted storyline, constraining the characters’ autonomy and behaviour. An agent-based approach provides possibilities of a narrative emerging from interaction between a number of autonomous characters. In this paper such an approach is proposed, based on autonomous virtual agents that have mindreading capabilities. The approach is applied to genera...

We present a model of interpersonal attitude used for generating expressive postures for computer animated characters. Our model consists of two principle dimensions, affiliation and status. It takes into account the relationships between the attitudes of two characters and allows for a large degree of variation between characters, both in how they react to other characters’ behaviour and in th...

this study aims to investigate the effect of good characters of managers on organizational trust in tamin ejtemaei in kerman based on the islamic hints. this research is descriptive-applicable in terms of objective. population was 400 managers of tamin ejtemaei organization in kerman province. a sample of 196 people was selected by cukran's formula. a self-administrated questionnaire was e...

The JavaTM developers kit requires a size() operation for all objects. Unfortunately, the best known solution, available in the Java concurrency package, has a blocking concurrent implementation that does not scale. This paper presents a highly scalable wait-free implementation of a concurrent size() operation based on a new lock-free interrupting snapshots algorithm for the classical atomic sn...