Behavioral semantics for components abstract from implementation details and describe the components’ behavior independent of the components’ implementations. It provides an important foundation for behavioral substitutability and interface specifications. In this paper, we develop and investigate a behavioral semantics for a sequential class-based object-oriented language with aliasing, subcla...

We present a process-oriented approach to specify personalitybased behaviors in agents. The main aim is to make the agents able to reason about their choices following a preferred reasoning strategy according to a personality type. With this method, the decision-making of the agent becomes flexible enough to be reused in different scenarios while staying consistent with the used psychological t...

Integrating approaches based on belief-desire-intentions (BDI) logics with the more recent developments of distributed POMDPs is today a fundamental challenge in the multiagent systems arena. One common suggestion for such an integration is to use stochastic models (POMDPs) for generating agent behaviors, while using the BDI components for monitoring and creating explanations. We propose a comp...

Avoidance goals heighten the salience of negative social experiences, and in intimate relationships such an orientation may contribute to communication difficulties and the perpetuation of avoidance. We therefore hypothesized that individuals with stronger avoidance goals would be particularly prone to engage in escalating levels of negative communication with their intimate partner, and we tes...

BACKGROUND Depressive symptoms in children are associated with social skills deficits and problems with peers. We propose a model which suggests different mechanisms for the impact of deficits in self-oriented social skills (assertiveness and social participation) and other-oriented social skills (pro-social, cooperative and non-aggressive behaviors) on children's depressive symptoms. We hypoth...

Abstract: Behavioral symptoms of people with dementia can negatively affect the mental health informal caregivers. The aims this study were to describe behavioral adults diagnosed based on report their caregivers and characterize regarding level hope, burden stress related care. Twenty participated in study, an average age 54 years, predominantly daughters wives patients, who granted interview ...

a single layer, for instance allowing usage of conflicting behaviors which otherwise would be problematic to have running in the same vehicle. There are known problems of behavior based architectures, one of the more important being the deadlock problem. In spite of having advanced a general solution, in the form of fatigue and recovery times, this may not be enough to cover all cases. However,...

In this paper we extend the range of Inverse Kinematics by integrating the mass distribution information to embody the position control of the center of gravity of any articulated figure in single support (open tree structure). The underlying control architecture of main and secondary behaviors (or tasks) is used to associate this new approach to other behaviors. We evaluate the use of these te...

A review of recent research (1988 to 1998) on gender differences in environmental attitudes and behaviors found that, contrary to past inconsistencies, a clearer picture has emerged: Women report stronger environmental attitudes and behaviors than men. Additional evidence of gender differences in environmental attitudes and behaviors was also supported across age (Study 1) and across 14 countri...

Prosocial behaviors are a diverse group of actions that are integral to human social life. In this study, we examined the ability of 18and 24-month-old infants to engage in three types of other-oriented behaviors, specifically helping, sharing, and comforting. Infants in both age groups engaged in more prosocial behavior on trials in which an unfamiliar adult experimenter required aid (experime...