Research into virtual environments on the one hand and artificial intelligence and artificial
life on the other has largely been carried out by two different groups of people with different …

We report an experiment with an acoustic surveillance system comprised of a computer and
microphone situated in a typical office environment. The system continuously analyzes the …

The paper reviews the intersection of AI and VEs. It considers the use of AI as a component
of a VE and Intelligent Virtual Agents as a major application area, covering movement …

Les crises projettent la plupart du temps le décideur sur une durée plus ou moins longue
dans l'urgence de la décision, avec l'obligation de minimiser les conséquences possibles …

In this paper, we address the problem of scheduling hybrid task sets consisting of hard
periodic and soft aperiodic tasks that may share resources in exclusive mode in a dynamic …

Created from two words with opposing meanings, the expression virtual realities is absurd. If
someone were to talk to you about the color black-white, you would probably think that …

Any virtual environment (VE) built in a classical way is dedicated to a very specific domain.
Its modification or even adaptation to another domain requires an expensive human …

Learning and training are complex and complement processes. Started from the early ages,
learning had to find continuously motivational factors in order to become effective and …

In this article, we present a parallel image processing system based on the concept of
reactive agents. This means that, in our system, each agent has a very simple behavior …

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milieu-expérimentation, aisthesis, praxis, poiesis, prédiction, action, adaptation, entité …