Semiautomatic generation of Web courses by means of an object-oriented simulation language

This paper describes the procedure we have used to semiautomatically generate three different courses for the web. The simulation used in these courses have been written in our special-purpose object-oriented continuous simulation language (OOCSMP). A compiler we have written for this language automatically generates Java code and html pages, which must be completed manually with the text and images associated to each.This paper has been sponsored by the Spanish Interdepartmental Commission of Science and Technology (CICYT), project numbers TIC-96-0723-C02-01 and TEL97-030

Some strategies for the simulation of vocabulary agreement in multi-agent communities

In this paper, we present several experiments of belief propagation in multi-agent communities. Each agent in the simulation has an initial random vocabulary (4 words) corresponding to each possible movement (north, south, east and west). Agents move and communicate the associated word to the surrounding agents, which can be convinced by the 'speaking agent', and change their corresponding word by 'imitation'. Vocabulary uniformity is achieved, but strong interactions and competition can occur between dominant words. Several moving and trusting strategies as well as agent roles are analyzed.This paper has been sponsored by the Spanish Interdepartmental Commission of Science and Technology (CICYT), project number TEL1999-0181

Simulating evolutionary agent communities with OOCSMP

This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/508791.508795Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computingThis paper describes some extensions added to the continuous simulation language OOCSMP to perform agent-oriented simulation. The extensions are tested by simulating the evolution of a colony of virtual ants (vants). In this simulation, each vant is modelled as an agent and is assigned a set of genes that control some aspects of its behaviour, such as its velocity, memory, communication abilities, scepticism, etc. Some emergent properties of the swarm of vants have been observed.This paper has been sponsored by the Spanish Interdepartmental Commission of Science and Technology (CICYT), project number TELl999-018

Diseño de un curso interactivo y adaptativo de procesadores de lenguajes

El objetivo de este trabajo es describir una experiencia de innovación docente a través de la red que se está llevando a cabo en la Escuela Técnica Superior de Informática de la U. Autónoma de Madrid para la docencia de la asignatura de Procesadores de Lenguaje. Las características principales de esta experiencia son (a) la utilización de una herramienta para la creación de cursos adaptativos y (b) la incorporación de ejercicios sobre gramáticas que requieren una evaluación compleja

Integración de herramientas de simulación para la realización de aplicaciones de enseñanza

Tesis doctoral inédita leída en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Escuela Técnica superios de informática, Departamento de ingeniería informática. Fecha de lectura: 2-06-200