The concept of an agent has become important in both Artificial Intelligence (AI) and
mainstream computer science. In this article, we present a survey of what we perceive to be …

Since the late 1980s, software architecture has emerged as the principled understanding of
the large-scale structures of software systems. From its roots in qualitative descriptions of …

Interactive simulation environments constitute one of today's promising emerging
technologies, with applications in areas such as education, manufacturing, entertainment …

Over the past decade, software architecture research has emerged as the principled study of
the overall structure of software systems, especially the relations among subsystems and …

The Iowa Driving Simulator (IDS) is a high fidelity, immersive virtual environment for driving
simulation that supports a variety of applications, ranging from traffic safety research to full …

A primary challenge to creating an intelligent vehicle that can competently drive in traffic is
the task of tactical reasoning: deciding which maneuvers to perform in a particular driving …

One of today's most serious social, economical and environmental problems is traffic
congestion. In addition to the financial cost of the problem, the number of traffic related …

The resulting quality of software-intense system development projects depends to a large
extent on well understood customer's requirements. Thus, every development process starts …

The need for contextually rich education environments in construction management
suggests the development of a general-purpose situational simulation framework that can …

This paper presents a framework for behavior modeling and scenario control based on
hierarchical, concurrent state machines (HCSM). We present the structure and informal …