Abstract Tracking the circulation and exchange of ideas, models, technology in Mediterranean during Middle Ages allows for easier comparison between cultural systems, although different, were not kept sealed boxes. This is undoubtedly case with zoomorphic fountains Byzantium Islamicate Mediterranean. Much has been written on history from varying perspectives, resulting literature that comprehen...

We describe an AI behavior architecture that supports responsive collaborative interruptible and resumable behaviors using behavior queues. This architecture wraps sets of behaviors into roles, which provide a simple efficient mechanism for encapsulating behaviors into components that can change dynamically, based on environmental criteria. To illustrate the viability of this architecture in a ...

Intelligent non-player characters that exhibit realistic ambient behaviors produce more captivating and immersive stories for the player. However, the creation of nonrepetitive and entertaining behaviors is challenging, since it involves writing complex custom scripting code for thousands of characters in a common game adventure. This demonstration describes the generation of motivational behav...

In the present era, speaking in English without errors is a great challenge for students of all ages and it long process to achieve it, perfectly. Speaking skill refers ability convey one’s thought through words. It advisable develop at early stage because they can practice better with necessary language skills succeed later life. The purpose paper Short Stories. researcher selected three short...

Scripting custom content for computer role-playing games requires the designer to tell a story by writing small fragments of computer code distributed among the characters, props, and locations of the game world. The main challenge of these games is to create believable motivations and behaviors for the dozens or even hundreds of characters and rooms with which the player may interact. We prese...

Indian Ocean literature has captured the porousness and fluidity that configure space through narrations in which history memory, both individual collective, blend to voice uninhabited silence forged by unsettled colonialism. M.G. Vassanji’s The Book of Secrets (1994) Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By Sea (2001) are perspicuous exponents undertows lurk behind troubled existence uprooted individuals for wh...

the remained visual sources of qajar art works can be studied as one of the referable, valid evidence for identifying thewomen's roles and identity during this period. for this purpose‚ the illustrations of the arabian nights manuscript by sani al-molk is considered as one of the references recognizing the womanʼs presence during qajar period. this masterpiece has some exclusive features d...

Orientalism is portrayed by Edward Said within the context of how cultural differences have made West construct an image East with dichotomy Orient/Occident. Numerous writings been engendered depicting Eastern culture, tradition, and religion that shaped West’s perceptions East. These revolved around not only ethnicity but also gender, hence leading to juxtaposition Orient-Occident feminine-mas...