Objectives The current study examines the features of the physical environment affecting environmental perception and tries to explain paradigm of architecture based on the neuropsychological features. This paper investigates the relationship between the two aspects of the physical and neuropsychological environment in the patients with dementia Alzheimer’s type in order to meet the needs of th...

This paper introduces a novel approach to knowledge-based understanding of images. Our system maintains common-sense knowledge of many situations and uses this knowledge to analyze the input images and allows us to query the system for interesting inferences. The domain that we have chosen to implement our system deals with the images of pre-historic cave art. However, the approach is equally a...

We develop an agent-based model in which heterogenous and boundedly rational agents interact by trading a risky asset at an endogenously set price. Agents are endowed with balance sheets comprising the risky asset as well as cash on the asset side and equity capital as well as debt on the liabilities side. The introduction of balance sheets and debt into an agent-based setup is relatively new t...

This paper focuses on traffic simulation generated by the multi-agent simulation framework TRASS (Traffic Simulation System). TRASS-based simulations conceive agents as individual traffic participants moving in an artificial environment and which can be described in a three-layer agent model. There is no restriction on any particular kind of road users such as cars or pedestrians, but a concept...

Cultural awareness is important for a range of operations from disaster assistance to active conflict. This paper illustrates the application of an acknowledged system of systems (SoS) to train dismounted soldiers in cultural awareness. Such training system is required to not only increase intelligence gathering opportunities but also minimize troop member loss during missions. Moreover, given ...

In this paper we present a proposal for a knowledge-based programming environment. In such an environment, declarative background knowledge, procedures, and concrete data are represented in suitable languages and combined in a flexible manner. This leads to a highly declarative programming style. We illustrate our approach on an example and report about our prototype implementation.

This paper addresses the problem of implementing agent-based software systems with respect to agent framework fundamental concepts such as autonomy and interaction without specifying any particular agent internal architecture. The autonomy and interaction axioms imply that a deployment environment has to be defined in order to achieve interaction among agents. This deployment environment may al...