- Prof.dr. John-Jules Ch. Meyer studied Mathematics with Computer Science and Digital Signal Processing at Leyden Unive... moreProf.dr. John-Jules Ch. Meyer studied Mathematics with Computer Science and Digital Signal Processing at Leyden University. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam on a subject in theoretical computer science in 1985. From 1988 to 1993 he was a full professor both at the VU in Amsterdam and the University of Nijmegen. Since 1993 he has been a full professor of computer science, and artificial intelligence in particular, at Utrecht University. He has over 500 peer-reviewed publications in international journals and conference proceedings. In 2005 he was appointed as a Fellow of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence, nowadays the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI).edit
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Serious games allow for adaptive and personalised forms of training; the nature and timing of learning activities can be tailored to the trainee’s needs and interests. Autonomous game-based training requires for the automatic selection of... more
Serious games allow for adaptive and personalised forms of training; the nature and timing of learning activities can be tailored to the trainee’s needs and interests. Autonomous game-based training requires for the automatic selection of appropriate exercises for an individual trainee. This paper presents a framework for an automated scenario generation system. The underlying notion is that a learning experience is defined by the objects and agents that inhabit the training environment. Our system uses automated planning to assess the behaviour required to achieve the (personalised) training objective. It then generates a scenario by selecting semantically annotated (or ‘smart’) objects and by assigning goals to the virtual characters. The resulting situations trigger the trainee to execute the desired behaviour. To test the framework, a prototype has been developed to train the First Aid treatment of burns. Experienced instructors evaluated scenarios written by three types of auth...
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Instructors play a major role in many of the current vir- tual training systems. Consequently, either many instructors per trainee are needed, which is expensive, or single instructors perform highly de- manding tasks, which might lead to... more
Instructors play a major role in many of the current vir- tual training systems. Consequently, either many instructors per trainee are needed, which is expensive, or single instructors perform highly de- manding tasks, which might lead to suboptimal training. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a cognitive model that not only generates the behaviour of virtual characters, but also
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Virtual training systems with intelligent agents are often used to prepare people who have to act in incidents or crisis situations. Literature tells that typical human mistakes in incidents and crises involve situations in which people... more
Virtual training systems with intelligent agents are often used to prepare people who have to act in incidents or crisis situations. Literature tells that typical human mistakes in incidents and crises involve situations in which people make false assumptions about other people's knowledge or inten- tions. To develop a virtual training system in which cor- rectly estimating others' knowledge and
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Methodologies for multiagent system development should assist the developer in making decisions about those aspects of the analysis, design and implementation, that are crucial for multiagent systems, namely, social and cognitive... more
Methodologies for multiagent system development should assist the developer in making decisions about those aspects of the analysis, design and implementation, that are crucial for multiagent systems, namely, social and cognitive con-cepts (eg norms and goals). In this paper, we ...
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Research Interests: Information Systems, Distributed Computing, Grid Computing, Trusted Computing, Multi Agent System, and 13 moreComputer Software, Research Paper, Efficient Algorithm for ECG Coding, Design Methodology, Virtual Organization, Web Service, Agent BAsed System, Web Information Systems, Open System, Social Network, Service Orientation, Agent Communication, and Trust Model
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Procedural world generation is often limited to creating worlds devoid of people and any background. Because of this, creating a vibrant, living world is still a problem that requires a skilled designer. In this paper, we present a method... more
Procedural world generation is often limited to creating worlds devoid of people and any background. Because of this, creating a vibrant, living world is still a problem that requires a skilled designer. In this paper, we present a method that generates a socially connected population in any virtual terrain, using a mixed-initiative simulation of settlements that adapt to the world and to a designer's input. Using this simulation, we develop a number of sample worlds that convey the expressive potential of the approach. We further evaluate ease of use with a user study. As a proof-of-concept, we implement the system to bridge the output of a terrain generation tool to the input of a narrative generation tool.