In the field of Civil Engineering, Knowledge Engineering techniques have been applied to safety evaluation, damage assessment and design of structures, but applications are usually limited to specific cases . In this paper, a general approach to structural mechanic problems, based on Qualitative Physics, is discussed, providing the way to model and reason about a wide class of structures as phy...

Atopic dermatitis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease with a complex pathogenesis, where changes in skin barrier and imbalance of the immune system are relevant factors. The skin forms a mechanic and immune barrier, regulating water loss from the internal to the external environment, and protecting the individual from external aggressions, such as microorganisms, ultraviolet radiation and ph...

We present a game mechanic called pseudo-visibility for games inhabited by non-player characters (NPCs) driven reinforcement learning (RL). NPCs are incentivized to pretend they cannot see pseudo-visible players: the training environment simulates an NPC determine how would act if player were invisible, and penalizes acting differently. thereby trained selectively ignore players, except when ju...