In this paper, the question is addressed which patterns in world dynamics should occur to enable a conceptualisation of a world’s process as an agent. Six criteria on patterns in world dynamics are discussed that indicate when the world shows agency, and allows a faithful agent-based conceptualisation. The criteria, that naturally cover aspects such as embodiment and embeddedness, are formalise...

Fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) running on hydrogen do not cause local air pollution. Depending on the energy sources used to produce the hydrogen they may also reduce greenhouse gases in the long-term. Besides problems related to the necessary investments into hydrogen infrastructure, there is a general notion that current fuel cells costs are too high to be competitive with conventional engines, cr...

Simple Temporal Networks (STNs) have proved useful in applications that involve metric time. However, many applications involve events whose timing is uncertain in the sense that it is not controlled by the execution agent. In this paper we consider execution algorithms for temporal networks that include events of uncertain timing. We present two such algorithms. The first retains maximum flexi...

In this paper, we develop an agent-based model which integrates four important elements, i.e. organisational energy management policies/regulations, energy management technologies, electric appliances and equipment, and human behaviour, based on a case study, to simulate the energy consumption in office buildings. With the model, we test the effectiveness of different energy management strategi...

From as early as 6 months of age, human children distinguish between motion patterns generated by animate objects from patterns generated by moving inanimate objects, even when the only stimulus that the child observes is a single point of light moving against a blank background. The mechanisms by which the animate/inanimate distinction are made are unknown, but have been shown to rely only upo...

This paper presents a framework for investigating the relationship between both the auditory and visual modalities in speech. This framework employs intentional agents to analyse multilinear bimodal representations of speech utterances in line with an extended computational phonological model.