Method engineering has widely been proposed as an approach to delivering industrial strength software development processes to spur the adoption of agent-based software in industry. The Foundation for Physical Agents Technical Committee (FIPA-TC) Methodology group is currently attempting to define a template for documenting process fragments. This paper presents our experience in applying the t...

Many graduate and professional programs include Problem Based Learning (PBL) as a mainstay in their curricula. For many undergraduate students, this is a change from a teacher-centered to a student-centered learning method. This study was undertaken to learn about perceptions and test performances of college students (N=116) enrolled in liberal education classes when PBL is used vs. traditional...

Process-Oriented and Agent-Oriented are both emerging views of software and have their advantages and disadvantages respectively. What presents a striking contrast is that the process-oriented BPM is passive while the agent-orient MAS is proactive. Therefore, this paper employs MultiAgent to eliminate the passivity of BPM so as to make BPM proactive. It gives the architecture of the proposed Mu...

In this paper, we present an agent-based, evolutionary, model of outputand labormarket dynamics. Firms produce a homogeneous, perishable good under constant returns to scale using labor only. Labor productivities are firm-specific and change stochastically due to technical progress. The key feature of the model resides in an explicit microfoundation of the processes of: (i) matching between fir...

The goals of instruction are usually taken to be fixed, at least in their broad outline. For example, in elementary school mathematics, students progress from counting to addition, multiplication, and fractions. Given this state of affairs, the business of educational research has been to determine how the fixed instructional aims can best be reached. Education researchers have traditionally as...

With the increasingly fierce market competition, the demand for effective project cost estimation methods is increasingly urgent. In this paper, the author analyse the intelligent control of engineering project based on case-based reasoning. The use of traditional methods to estimate the cost of the project has exposed many problems. The application of case-based reasoning based on the experien...

Recently, due to the widespread use of computers, text-based communication methods, such as e-mail and chat, have attracted a great deal of attention. If pianists can apply their musical expressions to the text input, they can input texts with their own emotion richly. Therefore, the goal of our study is to construct TEMPEST (TExt input and Musical PErforming SysTem) that is a text input system...