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Agent-based Social Gaming with AMUSE
No full textAbstractThis paper describes the core features and the multi-agent architecture of AMUSE (Agent-based Multi-User Social Environment), a novel agent-based platform for social gaming. AMUSE is designed to offer game developers readymade solutions to many issues that are common to social games like, e.g., advanced management of matches, turns and players. AMUSE is developed on top of WADE to leverage the scalable and solid agent-based deployment environment and the PaaS approach that it provides. This paper first outlines some of the motivations that originated the development of AMUSE. Then, it presents the multi-agent architecture of AMUSE and it enumerates the major applicative features that the platform provides. Finally, the paper briefly outlines initial experiments on game prototyping using the platform
An Overview of the AMUSE Social Gaming Platform
No full textThis 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 state management, for games with synchronous and asynchronous interactions. AMUSE fulfills such a need by means of industrial-strength agent technology. Actually, AMUSE is not only a development framework that can be effectively used to implement prototypes and small-scale games with just a few concurrent players. Rather, it is thought as a PaaS (Platform as a Service) tool that enables service provides, like game portals and community portals, to relief game factories from the burden of implementing horizontal functionality that are common to a large set of games. This paper is a first presentation of the work on AMUSE and it starts framing AMUSE into the scope of social gaming. Then, the paper describes the architecture of the multi-agent system that represents the core of AMUSE and it relates the presented agent types with the functionality that AMUSE provides. Finally, the paper outlines some directions of future development
Mission-Critical Business Process Management with WADE
No full textThis paper presents an overview of WADE (Workflows and Agents Development Environment), an open-source platform for agent-based BPM (Business Process Management) that has been adopted in Telecom Italia for mission-critical systems since the early 2000s. First, we sketch the main features of WADE and outline its internal architecture. Then, we describe WANTS (Workflows and AgeNTS), an industrial strength platform for large-scale network & service management that is now in service in Telecom Italia, and that leverages WADE agent-based workflows as core technology. Finally, we conclude the paper with a brief summary of the presented innovative technologies
Latest Developments of WADE to Support User-Centric Business Processes
No full textIn this paper we present the latest developments of WADE (Workflows and Agents Development Environment) that provide concrete support for a better realization of the innovative paradigm of agent-based BPM (Business Process Management). First, we review and critique the basic ideas behind agent-based BPM and we focus on its innovative characteristics with respect to traditional BPM. Then, we describe the most recent developments of WADE that are intended to enhance its agent-based runtime platform by providing improved non-functional features and a better integration with the external software systems. Finally, we discuss the new functionality that WADE offers to enable the rapid and effective realization of user-centric business processes, i.e., business processes that are tightly integrated with the work of users and that are mainly driven by user interactions. Such processes are met frequently in practice and WADE seamlessly accommodates Web and Android users by means of dedicated views. We conclude this paper with a brief overview of notable mission-critical applications that are already using WADE and its new features
Agents on the move: JADE for Android devices
No full textAbstract—In this paper we describe the current state of the development of JADE add-on for Android, a platform module that enables the deployment of JADE agents on Android devices. First, we motivate the research and we describe the rationale of the project. Then, we detail the coarse-grained architecture of the platform module and we discuss the underlying design decisions. The API of the module is also discussed to detail how programmers use it to host JADE agents on mobile devices. Finally, we briefly outline conclusions on the presented work. I
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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