Animated interface agents have been proposed as a more natural way for the user to interact with computers. Such agents are frequently used in pedagogical and program help applications. While many aspects of social agents have been investigated, that of keeping an appropriate social distance seems to have been overlooked. This ability is coupled with an understanding of when advice is and is no...

In this paper, we describe our method that automatically constructs evaluation functions without any human analysis of a target game. Such automated constriction of evaluation functions is crucial to develop a general game player that can learn and play an arbitrary instance of a certain class of games. Our approach is to construct features written in logic programs from the game definition and...

Mohammed Hanifis a well-known contemporary novelist who takes up the controversial actual incident of blowing Pak One, that is, official airplane carrying president country General Muhammad Zia-Ul-Haq, on 17 August 1988. The took place only few weeks after writer had left Pakistan Air Force Academy while doing training as Pilot Officer. story pivots around Zia and an Under Officer Ali Shigri. H...