This paper presents work on the design rationale and architecture of ReMindMe. ReMindMe aims to provide agent-based support for people with Alzheimer’s disease and their social environment by playing music with a strong personal meaning to the patient so as to activate personal memory recall. ReMindMe stimulates reminiscence and self-disclosure of personal memories. Through long-term interactio...

In 2010, the Brazilian Antitrust Authority -CADEconcluded an agreeement with Globo and the “Club of 13” on a three-year deal for the exclusive broadcasting rights to all Brazilian Football League (BFL) games spanning the five principal media platforms: freeto-air TV, pay TV, Pay per View, Internet and Mobile. The deal eliminates competition in broadcasting of Brazilian League games (primarily o...

This paper proposes an agent-based approach for real-time collaborative monitoring and maintenance of equipments and machines. The proposed approach automates the maintenance management process by utilizing intelligent softvvare agents. The maintenance schedules are achieved by automated real time negotiation among software agents representing geographically distributed field engineers and a br...

The artefact or object-based models commonly used in interaction design for describing users are inadequate for understanding the complexity and variability of online consumer behaviour, while traditional models of consumer behaviour do not reflect the user's ability to shape their shopping experience online. To address this gap a framework has been developed for modelling online consumer behav...

The use of computer conferences as "Virtual Seminars" has become a convenient way to allow spatially seperated participants to interact under the purpose of acquiring specific knowledge in the area of distance education. In order to facilitate orientation, to indicate social meanings, and to structure the communicative processes, two different types of spatial metaphors have been applied in int...

Interactive safety-critical applications have specific requirements that cannot be completely captured by traditional evaluation techniques. In this paper, we discuss how to perform a systematic inspection-based analysis to improve both usability and safety aspects of an application. The analysis considers a system prototype and the related task model and aims to evaluate what could happen when...

The study of human experts in the areas of design and manufacturing has lead to two hypotheses concerning the problem solving methods which these engineers utilize to attack difficult problems. The basis of both hypotheses is a modular approach to problem solving. One hypothesis addresses the nature of the modules utilized while the other hypothesis deals with the organization of the modules. A...

autonomous agents achieve functionalities needed to make a role-based organization model.

This paper provides some practical guidelines for the design of data mining frameworks. It describes the rationale behind some of the key design decisions that guided the design, development, and implementation of the TMiner component-based data mining framework. TMiner is a flexible framework that can be used as a stand-alone tool or integrated into larger business intelligence (BI) solutions....

Complexity in software design refers to the difficulty in understanding and manipulating the set of concepts, models and techniques involved in the design process. Agents are sophisticated software artefacts, associated with a large number of features and therefore Agent-Based System (ABS) engineering methodologies involve considerable design complexity. This paper proposes a framework to evalu...