The realistic physical modelling of characters in games and virtual worlds is becoming a viable alternative to more traditional animation techniques. Physical modelling can enhanc...
We address the problem of visually detecting causal events and tting them together into a coherent story of the action witnessed by the camera. We show that this can be done by re...
Automated problem solving is viewed typically as the expenditure of computation to solve one or more problems passed to a reasoning system. In response to each problem received, e...
In automated negotiation systems consisting of self-interested agents, contracts have traditionally been binding. Leveled commitment contracts--i.e., contracts where each party ca...
One of the major bottlenecks in conceptual engineering design is the pure amount of design information which the design engineer needs to take into consideration. Furthermore, the ...