This paper demonstrates that multi-agent systems have the capacity to model a region in all its complexity. An example is developed to show that these tools are not only capable of spatializing and distributing the behaviour of individuals, but above all, that they allow individuals to integrate different perceptions of space as well as the constraints imposed on them by a community. A dialecti...

L’introduction des jeux-vidéo sérieux comme soutiens pédagogiques dans le domaine de l’enseignement est un processus de plus en plus démocratisé. En parallèle de cette introduction, la recherche en ”game studies” représente une discipline académique très active qui s’intéresse à l’analyse des systèmes vidéoludiques complexes, notamment en ce qui concerne la compréhension de l’expérience des jou...

In ebXML the choreography of a business process should be modeled by UMM (UN/CEFACT Modeling Methodology) and is finally expressed in BPSS (Business Process Specification Schema). Our analysis of UMM and BPSS by workflow patterns shows that their expression power is not always equivalent. We use the workflow patterns to specify the transformation from UMM to BPSS where possible. Furthermore, th...

the first spoken dialogue system developed for the persian language is introduced. this is a ticket reservation system with persian asr and nlu modules. the focus of the paper is on learning the dialogue management module. in this work, real on-line training data are used during the learning process. for on-line learning, the effect of the variations of discount factor (g) on the learning speed...

The aim of our work is twofold: the exploration corpora combined with search for an innovative modality refining intercultural competence. For this purpose, we use brand name Kärcher, which many years has largely departed from its original meaning as a high-pressure water cleaner by acquiring semantic weight and discursive versatility through discourse, it blends other semantic-syntactic combin...