The present research paper seeks to ascertain whether students respond emotionally literature—as it is argued that the emotions experienced during reading help interpret literary texts. To end, study departs from an investigation of students’ personal responses only determine emotion-based exist in EFL context, thus answering central question guides this work: do affective literature exist? sta...

This article presents the first attempt to construct a computational model of common ground. Four corpus-based metrics are presented that estimate what facts are likely to be in common ground. The proposed metrics were evaluated in an experiment with human participants, focussing on a domain of famous people. The results are encouraging: two of the proposed metrics achieved a large positive cor...

Providing seamless, fluid interaction between team members, contractors, consultants from any world-wide location stimulates virtual organisations. The agent-based team work environment UNITE offers team members intuitive and ubiquitous access to each other, and to information and resources of their project, secure and transparent to their physical workplaces and their own tools. Thus, team foc...

We suggest that, as an extension to traditional historical analysis, it is potentially insightful and useful to model guerrilla wars in agent-based terms. Accordingly, the Iruba agent-based model of a guerrilla war has been designed and implemented. Some experimental results obtained with the model and conclusions that may be drawn from them are reported, particularly in relation to Guevara and...

Agent-Based Modeling has the capability to become a very powerful tool in economics, but in order to achieve this will require a great deal of effort on the part of its current practitioners. Economics at its core studies people and their actions. This is inherently difficult to do since the motivation of people is not always discernible. A method by which the variety of human behavior could be...