As Consumer Electronics devices get interconnected, the issue of aligning their data management solutions becomes prominent. If we want to deploy comprehensive applications that ar...
Abstract. The research in the paper is motivated by building a decentralized/P2P XML storage on top of a DHT (Distributed Hash Table). The storage must provide high data availabili...
Mediation is the process of decomposing a task into subtasks, finding agents suitable for these subtasks and negotiating with agents to obtain commitments to execute these subtas...
We present a general logic of explicit knowledge represented as finite sets of logical formulae which can evolve by nondeterministic reasoning and communication. It is partly bas...
Designing agents whose behavior challenges human players adequately is a key issue in computer games development. This work presents a novel technique, based on reinforcement lear...
Gustavo Andrade, Geber Ramalho, Hugo Santana, Vinc...