Abstract. If we are to enable agents to handle increasingly greater levels of complexity, it is necessary to equip them with mechanisms that support greater degrees of autonomy. Th...
An increasing number of Web-based systems, including brainstorming, decision-making, and negotiation support systems, are being developed to aid users in solving particular types ...
Margaret J. Kersten, Marlene Haley, Gregory E. Ker...
Abstract— An ontology is a formal language adequately representing the knowledge used for reasoning in a specific environment. When contradictions arise and make ontologies inad...
This work explores the use of ambient displays in the context of interruption. A multimodal interface was created to communicate with users by using two ambient channels for inter...
We propose group communication for agent coordination within “active rooms” and other pervasive computing scenarios featuring strict real-time requirements, inherently unrelia...
Paolo Busetta, Mattia Merzi, Silvia Rossi, Fran&cc...