Norms defined by institutions and enforced by organizations have been put forward as a mechanism to increase the efficiency and reliability of electronic transactions carried out ...
Formal AI systems traditionally represent knowledge using logical formulas. We will show, however, that for certain kinds of information, a modelbased representation is more compa...
The dialogue that follows was written to express some of our ideas and remaining questions about IT systems, moral agency, and responsibility. We seem to have made some progress o...
Multi-agent research often borrows from biology, where remarkable examples of collective intelligence may be found. One interesting example is ant colonies’ use of pheromones as...
This paper describes the design and implementation of a module of emotions and personality for synthetic actors. Here are presented the results of previous researches, which were t...