A compact multiagent optimization system (MAOSC) based on autonomy oriented computing (AOC) is presented. Performed by a society of autonomous entities in iterative cycles, an optimization algorithm can simply be described by a macro generate-and-test behavior, which deploys a few elemental generating behaviors under conditioned reflex behaviors supported by a testing operation library. MAOSC p...

Class inheritance and dynamic binding are the key features of object-oriented programming and they permit designing and developing complex systems. However, standard class inheritance is essentially static and cannot be directly employed for modeling dynamic object behaviors. In this paper we propose a linguistic extension of Java, called Dec-Java, that is partially inspired by the decorator de...

This paper presents a multiagent framework designed to animate groups of synthetic humans that properly balance task oriented and social behaviors. The work presented in this paper focuses on the BDI agents and the social model integrated to provide socially acceptable decisions. The social model provides rationality, to control the global coordination of the group, and sociability, to simulate...

Abstract As robots have become increasingly common in human-rich environments, it is critical that they are able to exhibit social cues be perceived as a cooperative and socially-conformant team member. We investigate the effect of robot gaze on people’s subjective perceptions mobile socially present entity three hallway navigation scenarios. The tested behaviors were path-oriented (looking at ...

This dissertation introduces PyPOSH, a reactive agent architecture with loadable behavioral modules based on Bryson’s Parallel-Rooted Ordered Slip-Stack Hierarchical action selection model. The framework utilizes a modular and object-oriented interface to behaviors built utilizing agile and component-based methods.

Power electronics as an application oriented discipline, has been employed in industrial, commercial, residential and aerospace environments. Since power electronic circuits containing pulse width modulation, are nonlinear systems, it exhibits complex behaviors such as bifurcation and chaos. In this paper, a simulation study of chaos in voltage controlled buck converter is done by varying the l...

A number of ontology-based approaches have been suggested for the description of service behaviors to be used in service composition and matching in service oriented architectures. We examine an approach based on classical software engineering notation and compare it to other approaches.

Proponents of the object-oriented (OO) paradigm frequently claim that the OO paradigm is ‘more natural’ than the procedural paradigm because the world is filled with objects that have both attributes and behaviors. However students in higher education generally experience considerable difficulty in understanding OO concepts and acquiring the necessary skills in object-oriented analysis and desi...

People in low-power positions, whether due to gender or class, tend to exhibit other-oriented rather than self-oriented behavior. Women's experiences at work and at home are shaped by social class, heightening identification with gender for relatively upper class women and identification with class for relatively lower class women, potentially mitigating, or even reversing, class-based differen...