Effective search control for numeric planning domains, in which appropriate numeric resource usage is critical to solving the problem, remains an open challenge in domainindependent planning. Most real-world problems rely on metric resources such as energy, money, fuel or materials. Despite the importance of numbers, few heuristics have been proposed to guide search in such domains. Hoffmann’s ...

This paper presents the findings of an empirical study that explores player game experience by implementing the ERiSA Framework in games. A study with Action Role-Playing Game (RPG) was designed to evaluate player interactions with game companions, who were imbued with social and emotional skill by the ERiSA Framework. Players had to complete a quest in the Skyrim game, in which players had to ...

Clusters of galaxies allow a direct estimate of the metallicity and metal production yield on the largest scale so far. It is argued that cluster metallicity (∼ 1/3 solar) should be taken as representative of the low-z universe as a whole. There is now compelling evidence that the bulk of stars not only in cluster ellipticals but also in field ellipticals and bulges formed at high redshifts (z ...

This study presents a quantitative approach for dependency analysis of Component Based Software (CBS) systems. Various types of dependency, in a C BS, have been observed through ‘assumptions’ and based on these observations some derived dependency relationships are proposed. The proposed dependency relationships are validated theoretically and an example illustration has been shown to demonstra...

Clustering is a widely used architecture to implement scalable, highly-available systems. The ORPG clustering technology is based on a loosely-coupled multi-tasking software architecture. It allows the ORPG system to run on multiple nodes (UNIX hosts, e.g. workstations and PCs) and thus, makes ORPG scalable. When the processing resource requirement increases beyond the current RPG hardware limi...

1 Research Assistant of the Fund of Scientific Research Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen) 2 ESAT-Telemic participates in the OPNET University Program for research and educational projects. Abstract It has become clear that the traditional Poisson model of data network traffic is insufficient for dimensioning and analyzing the performance of real-life networks. Fractal models are more appropriate for si...

A typical present-day virtual actor is able to store episodes in an ad hoc manner, which does not allow for reconstructing the actor’s personal stories. This paper proposes a virtual RPG actor with a full episodic memory, which allows for this reconstruction. The paper presents the memory architecture, overviews the prototype implementation, presents a benchmark for the efficiency of the memory...

The research was conducted in the clinic of pediatric surgery (city Novokuznetsk, Russia) in the year 1982 to 1985 in patients with severe AP in the initial period of the disease. At that time children with the most aggressive forms of AP were selectively admitted to our department. Сervical vagosympathetic blockade (CVB), Cups therapy (CupT) and Cold wet wraps procedures has been used. The eff...