This paper describes an architecture for building distributed information systems from existing information resources, based on software agent and distributed object technologies....
Martin K. Purvis, Stephen Cranefield, Geoff Bush, ...
This paper details results of an experiment to empirically evaluate the effectiveness and user acceptability of human-like synthetic agents in a multi-modal electronic retail scen...
Helen McBreen, Paul Shade, Mervyn A. Jack, Peter J...
We present a novel approach to interaction-oriented programming based on declaratively representing communication protocols. Our approach exhibits the following distinguishing fea...
In this paper we present a modeling technique for security protocols using Abstract State Machines [BS03,Gur95] (ASMs). We describe how we model the different agents in the scenar...
Dominik Haneberg, Holger Grandy, Wolfgang Reif, Ge...
A self-assembly algorithm for synchronising agents and have them arrange according to a particular graph is given. This algorithm, expressed using an ad hoc rule-based process alge...