In this paper we will discuss how some features of the new logic programming language DALI for agents and multi-agent systems are suitable to programming agents equipped with planning capabilities. We will discuss the design and implementation of an agent capable to perform STRIPS-like planning, and we will propose a significant example. In particular, a DALI agent, which is capable of complex ...

The Distributed Spatiotemporal Interoperability (DALI) approach addresses the issue of Interoperability between the separate domains of geoinformation (GI) and modeling & simulation (M&S) technology. While interoperability is often limited to a specific domain, DALI tries to exploit the synergies of coupling OGC-compliant services and HLA-based simulations in a standardized manner. The paper de...

Performance needs of many database applications dictate that the entire database be stored in main memory. The Dali system is a main memory storage manager designed to provide the persistence, availability and safety guarantees one typically expects from a diskresident database, while at the same time providing very high performance by virtue of being tuned to support in-memory data. Dali follo...

Seven protein structure comparison methods and two sequence comparison programs were evaluated on their ability to detect either protein homologs or domains with the same topology (fold) as defined by the CATH structure database. The structure alignment programs Dali, Structal, Combinatorial Extension (CE), VAST, and Matras were tested along with SGM and PRIDE, which calculate a structural dist...

Atrocalopteryx fasciata Yang, Hämäläinen & Zhang, spec. nov. (holotype ♂, from China, Yunnan, Dehong, Yingjiang, deposited at Odonata Collection of College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Dali University, Dali, Yunnan, China) is described and illustrated from the male sex. It is compared with Atrocalopteryx laosica (Fraser, 1933).

In this paper we present the new logic programming language DALI, aimed at defining agents and agent systems. A main design objective for DALI has been that of introducing in a declarative fashion all the essential features, while keeping the language as close as possible to the syntax and semantics of the plain Horn–clause language. Special atoms and rules have been introduced, for representin...

We present an animation system for the creation of non-photorealistic 3D animations. Our system daLi! is able to render images using a common 3D model as input. This model may be enriched with additional information concerning for instance hierarchy, structure and presentation style. The rendering is done analytically, which means the output is resolution independent. It results in a series of ...

Our web site (http://ekhidna.biocenter.helsinki.fi/dali_server) runs the Dali program for protein structure comparison. The web site consists of three parts: (i) the Dali server compares newly solved structures against structures in the Protein Data Bank (PDB), (ii) the Dali database allows browsing precomputed structural neighbourhoods and (iii) the pairwise comparison generates suboptimal ali...