The SystemC/TLM technologies are widely accepted in the industry for fast system-level simulation. An important limitation of SystemC regarding performance is that the reference implementation is sequential, and the official semantics makes parallel executions difficult. As the number of cores

Ó The Author(s) 2009. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Abstract In their comment on Marewski et al. (good judgments do not require complex cognition, 2009) Evans and Over (heuristic thinking and human intelligence: a commentary on Marewski, Gaissmaier and Gigerenzer

Any protocols for loosely coupled, open web services must support both fast performance and scalability to very large numbers of services and service interactions. Service discovery, composition, and contract/SLA management require a representation language which is both sufficiently expressive

for disembodied reasoning systems, it is problematic for robots. Robots are distributed systems; multiple sensory, reasoning, and motor control processes run in parallel, often on separate processors that are only loosely coupled with one another. Each of these processes necessarily maintains its own separate

mechanisms for representing, manipulating, and acquiring knowledge. Through formal results and discussion, we suggest that such fast and loose mechanisms could provide a concrete basis for the design of cognitive systems.

deterministic to probabilistic inference, from rules to mental-models. The HRM attempts to unify previously mentioned forms of reasoning into a single coherent system rather than treating them as loosely connected separate subsystems. The validity of the HRM is tested with cognitive models of three tasks

The fast development of internet technology has motivated the improvement of geographic information sharing and now, the advent of web services enable GIS functionality to be shared and consumed in a distributed computing environment. Web services are loosely-coupled functions that can be executed

The fast development of internet technology has motivated the improvement of geographic information sharing and now, the advent of web services enable GIS functionality to be shared and consumed in a distributed computing environment. Web services are loosely-coupled functions that can be executed

to use, provide rapid scenario development, enable fast course of action analysis and run on a personal computer. To meet these requirements the simulation presented in this thesis is built using reusable software components and loosely coupled program modules. 14. SUBJECT TERMS Software Components

in partial ful2llment of the requirements for the degree of