We take the position that large-scale distributed systems are better understood, at all levels, when locality is taken into account. When communication and mobility are clearly se...
—Recently, many researchers have studied on animated pedagogical agents to improve students’ learning experience in educational systems. In this paper, we describe how personal...
—This paper presents a framework supporting the definition and implementation of virtual environment inhabited by interacting situated agents defined according to the Multilayere...
Design patterns have been recently concerned in the multi-agent community for the design of systems with decentralized coordination. In this paper we present a design pattern for d...
Abstract. This paper surveys the state of the art of agent-mediated electronic commerce (ecommerce), especially in business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce and business-to-business (B...