Model-based testing helps to ensure a repeatable and scientific basis for product testing, gives good coverage of all the behaviors of the product and allows tests to be linked directly to requirements. Intensive research on model-based testing in the last 5-10 years has demonstrated the feasibility of this approach, shown that it can be cost-effective, and has developed a variety of test gener...

Attention, which intervenes at many different levels such as the perception of the environment and the allocation of cognitive resources, appears to represent one of the key factors of learning and working performance. This poster presents AtGentive, a project which aims at investigating the use of agent-based ICT systems for supporting the management of the attention of young or adult learners...

In this paper we describe a general method for the conversion of an equation-based model to an agent-based simulation. We illustrate the process by converting a well-known recent case-study in epidemiology (zombie infection), and show how we may obtain qualitatively similar results, whilst gaining access to the many benefits of an agent-based im-

—Performance measurement and analysis is crucial for steering the organization to realizing its strategic and operational goals. Relevant performance indicators and their relationships to goals and activities need to be determined and analyzed. Current organization modeling approaches do not reflect this in an adequate way. This paper attempts to fill the gap by presenting a framework for model...

Purpose: This paper describes dynamic agent composition, used to support the development of flexible and extensible large-scale agent-based models (ABMs). This approach was motivated by a need to extend and modify, with ease, an ABM with an underlying networked structure as more information becomes available. Flexibility was also sought after so that simulations are set up with ease, without th...

This paper investigates a specific type of information that should have an important place in the epistemic state of individual agents, namely their experiences. Just as beliefs, desires, or intentions, experiences should be properly represented, and their specific role in reasoning and decision processes clearly identified. After formally defining what an experience is, the paper explains in w...

A novel multi-scale tree construction algorithm for three dimensional shape using \Energy Controlled Active Balloon Model(EC-ABM)" is proposed. The key idea is that (1) internal and external energies and a number of surfaces which make up the ABM are controlled at each shrinking steps, and (2) each converged shape is regarded as one multi-scale shape. Some experimental three dimensional recogni...

We present a model for information transfer among people during evacuation and present results obtained in simulation with a large number of people. The results show how people behaviors affect the rate of evacuation.

Diagnosis is an important application area of Artiicial Intelligence. First generation expert diagnostic systems had exhibited diiculties which motivated the development of model-based reasoning techniques. Model-based diagnosis is the activity of locating malfunctioning components of a system solely on the basis of its structure and behavior. The paper gives a brief overview of the main concep...