For an autonomous physical agent, such as a moving robot or a person with their mobile device, performing a task in a spatio-temporal environment often requires interaction with ot...
Agent orientation is currently pursued primarily as a software paradigm. Software with characteristics such as autonomy, sociality, reactivity and proactivity, and communicative an...
Three distinct and interacting types of entities: people, software agents and e-markets are considered in this paper. These entities operate within Shaman, a proposed framework fo...
Gregory E. Kersten, Ryszard Kowalczyk, Hsiangchu L...
We provide precise high-level models for eight fundamental service interaction patterns, together with schemes for their composition into complex service-based business process int...
In this paper we demonstrate how a qualitative framework for decision making can be used to model scenarios from experimental economic studies and we show how our approach explains...
Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Katie Atkinson, Peter Mc...