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Capturing Order in Social Interactions

Alessandro Vinciarelli

As humans appear to be literally wired for social interaction, it is not surprising to observe that social aspects of human behavior and psychology attract interest in the computing community as well. The gap between social animal and unsocial machine was ...

2009

Distributed semantics and implementation for systems with interaction and priority

Joseph Sifakis

The paper studies a distributed implementation method for the BIP (Behavior, Interaction, Priority) component framework for modeling heterogeneous systems. BIP offers two powerful mechanisms for describing composition of components by combining interaction ...

2008

Fifty years of self-assembly experimentation

Roderich Gross

In this paper, we review half a century of research on the design of systems displaying (physical) self-assembly of macroscopic components. We report on the experience gained in the study of 22 such systems, exhibiting components ranging from passive mecha ...

USC Information Science Institute2007

Object-oriented approach for dynamic system modelling and simulation

Adel Besrour

Software engineering always cares to provide solutions for building applications as close as possible to what they should be, according to the requirements and the final users needs. Systems behavior simulation is a very common application to virtually rep ...

EPFL2005

DO PARTNERS CARE ABOUT THEIR MUTUAL LOCATION? Spatial awareness in virtual environments.

Pierre Dillenbourg, Nicolas Nova

This paper reports on four experimental studies concerning regard to how people use space so as to solve problems collaboratively in virtual environments. Prior to presenting the results, it summarizes the wide range of literature concerning social uses of ...

2005

Conferring human action recognition skills to life-like agents

Daniel Thalmann, Ronan Boulic

Most of today's virtual environments are populated with some kind of autonomous life-like agents. Such agents follow a preprogrammed sequence of behaviours that excludes the user as a participating entity in the virtual society. In order to make inhabited ...

1999