We describe a 3-layer architecture for an automated Real-Time Strategy game player. In these kinds of games, opponent players create and manage large armies of units to defeat one another requiring strategic thinking. Players give commands asynchronously, requiring rapid thinking and reaction. Our 3-layer architecture builds on current automated players for these kinds of games, which focuses o...

This paper describes the approach to application specification and design via reuse at the basis of the Development Information System of the ITHACA2 environment. Requirements and detailed design of a specific application are incrementally composed by aggregating available reusable components stored in the Software Information Base repository. The paper reviews the Development Information Syste...

ed data, and assessed the risk of bias. Using the FDA trials and the published trials, we performed pair-wise meta-analyses and Bayesian network meta-analyses on intraocular pressure at 3 months, our pre-specified primary outcome. We compared the results from these analyses.

The main aim of this report is to provide a measure of objective evaluation of ATT-Meta, a system we have implemented for conducting some of the reasoning needed in the understanding of metaphorical utterances. The report thereby also provides some evaluation of the overall theoretical approach informing ATT-Meta (Barnden & Lee, 2001). The evaluation of ATT-Meta consists of showing, at least in...

Audiences are attracted to dramas and horror movies even though negative and ambivalent emotions are likely to be experienced. Research into the seemingly paradoxical enjoyment of this kind of media entertainment has typically focused on genderand genrespecific needs and viewing motivations. Extending this line of research, the authors focus the role of the need for affect as a more general, ge...

in a region, optimal allocation of lands to various agricultural products is one of the most important issue associated with optimal use of agricultural resources. meta-goal programming is one of the multiple criteria decision models. this programming provides more flexible decisions for decision makers than other goal programming. in the current study, optimal cropping pattern was determined u...

The ultimate goal of metamaterial engineering is to have complete control over the electromagnetic constitutive parameters in three-dimensional space. This engineering can be done by considering either single meta-atoms or full meta-arrays. We follow the first route and perform numerical simulations of split-ring resonators, with different gap numbers and under varying illumination scenarios, t...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether the exclusion of individual treatment comparators, including placebo/no treatment, affects the results of network meta-analysis. DESIGN Survey of networks with individual trial data. DATA SOURCES PubMed and communication with authors of network meta-analyses. STUDY SELECTION AND METHODS We included networks that had five or more treatments, contained at least ...

The increasing openness and heterogeneity of distributed computing systems requires the representation of meta-information in distributed environments. Most type management systems can only define types within particular type systems. In contrast, the DSTC’s Meta-Object Facility (MOF) first defines a type system as a set of meta-meta-objects, and then defines types as meta-objects which are des...

Two studies examined the compensation hypothesis that members of both highand low-status groups associate high-status groups with high levels of competence and low levels of warmth on the one hand, and low-status groups with low levels of competence and high levels of warmth, on the other. Building upon existing linguistic relations between the French and the Belgians, Study 1 had standard, i.e...