The design and development of open multi-agent systems (MAS) is a key aspect in agent research. We advocate that they can be realised as electronic institutions. In this paper we ...
We present an approach for building text visualizations that avoids using plug-ins or clients based on languages like Java. Instead we propose to make the search engine applicatio...
Roles are a powerful paradigm to develop distributed applications based on agents, especially when they are in need of interacting with other entities. An agent-oriented approach ...
This paper describes a personal service robot developed for assisting a user in his/her daily life. One of the important aspects of such robots is the user-friendliness in communi...
Jun Miura, Yoshiaki Shirai, Nobutaka Shimada, Yasu...
Recovering articulated human motion is an important task in many applications including surveillance and human-computer interaction. In this paper, a hierarchical factorization met...