Narrative time has an important role to play in Interactive Storytelling (IS). The prevailing approach to controlling narrative time has been to use implicit models that allow only limited temporal reasoning about virtual agent behaviour. In contrast, this paper proposes the use of an explicit model of narrative time which provides a control mechanism that enhances narrative generation, orchest...

Household investment, that is investment in consumer durables and housing, leads non-residential fixed investment over the U.S. business cycle. This observation represents a potent challenge to real business cycle (RBC) theory. First of all the theory has been unable to account for it. In addition, research suggests the observation is driven by monetary shocks, supporting the view that these sh...

Margins in international banking have fallen dramatically during the last years. Therefore, banks face the pressing need to develop more suitable forms of organization and more efficient incentive schemes. In a principal agent framework this paper develops four fundamental rules. The marginal benefits from additional risk taking should be equal to its marginal cost. The top management should se...

Free All Monsters is a location-based game that turns a players iPhone into a Magic Monstervision Machine through which they can spot invisible monsters lurking in our city streets. The game draws upon Lefebvre’s concept of ‘the right to the city’ by encouraging the appropriation of the everyday space in which the game is played. It achieves this by presenting players with lusory goals anchored...

Recently a great number of methods and frameworks to develop multiagent systems have appeared. Nowadays there is no established framework to evaluate environments to develop multiagent systems (MAS) and choosing between one framework or another is a difficult task. The main contributions of this paper are: (1) a brief analysis of the state of the art in the evaluation of MAS engineering; (2) a ...

Clusters became the de-facto standard in modern high performance computlng. At prcsent it is rather often when a single organization has a few clusters and wants to connect them inlo a multicluster to beneflt from reduced task waiting time and increased total available processing power. This paper studies one of possible approaches to the problem of uniting the computing resources which address...

This paper explores how different credit marketand banking regulations affect business fluctuations. Capital adequacyand reserve requirements are analysed for their effect on the risk of severe downturns. We develop an agent-based macroeconomic model in which financial contagion is transmitted through balance sheets in an endogenous firm-bank network, that incorporates firm bankruptcy and heter...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.06.023 0747-5632/ 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Division of Information Studies, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, 31 Nanyang Link, Singapore 637718, Singapore. Tel.: +65 67904460. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (E.P.P. Pe-Than), [email protected] (D.H.-L. Goh)...

This paper examines the impact of the risk-based capital (RBC) requirements on bank cost efficiencies. We take into consideration both onand off-balance sheet (OBS) products and allow product mixes to differ across banks and to vary over time. Our empirical results suggest that the cost structures of large banks are significantly different during the pre-RBC and post-RBC periods. That is, the R...