This paper presents an overview of the novel platform AMUSE (Agent-based Multi-User Social Environment), an agent-based social gaming platform that leverages the power of industrial-strength agent technologies. The core need that motivated the initial work on AMUSE was to provide game developers with a solid tool targeting common horizontal issues in social gaming, like user management and game...

In a ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) environment, system components of different types, including hardware elements, software components, and network connections, must cooperate mutually to provide services that fulfill user requirements. Consequently, advanced and flexible characteristics of software that are specialized for a ubicomp environment are needed. This paper presents a proposal of an...

In ubiquitous computing environment, different kinds of system components including hardware elements, software components and network connections are required to cooperate with each other to provide services that fulfill user requirements. This paper proposes an agent-based middleware for ubiquitous environment that consists of computers and home electric appliances. The middleware, called AMU...

BACKGROUND Referral for ultrasound testing in all patients suspected of DVT is inefficient, because 80-90% have no DVT. OBJECTIVE To assess the incremental cost-effectiveness of a diagnostic strategy to select patients at first presentation in primary care based on a point of care D-dimer test combined with a clinical decision rule (AMUSE strategy), compared with hospital-based strategies. ...

WiFi Networks have been globally deployed and most mobile devices are currently WiFi-enabled. While WiFi has been proposed for multimedia content distribution, its lack of adequate support for multicast services hinders its ability to provide multimedia content distribution to a large number of devices. In this paper, we present the AMuSe system, whose objective is to enable scalable and adapti...

In this article we investigate the performance of the ICA algorithm AMUSE when applied to images contaminated by noise. The classes of noise we are using have gaussian, multiplicative and impulsive distributions. We find that AMUSE copes surprisingly well with the different types of noise, including multiplicative noise.

In the framework of the European ACTS programme, the AMUSE project aims to develop, specify, implement and trial advanced multimedia services using an end-to-end ATM infrastructure based on different types of access network technologies. This paper presents a summary of the first trial of AMUSE being operated in 1996 in Munich, Germany, giving both details on the realisation of the trial and on...

The design of affective interfaces introduces new challenges for their assessment. New methods and tools have to be developed, taking into account the emotional dimension of Computer-Human Interactions. This paper presents the tool AMUSE that allows to conduct such evaluations by collecting and aggregating different sources of data including user's eye gaze and physiological data. Some results ...