Defining behaviors for autonomous agents based on local perception and smart objects

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 887-897

  Gonçalves, Luiz ^a   Kallmann, Marcelo ^b   Thalmann, Daniel ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Autonomous behavior; Local perception; Smart objects

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

AUTONOMOUS BEHAVIOR; LOCAL PERCEPTION; SMART OBJECTS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 0038437942     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0097-8493(02)00177-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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