Most foundational models for global computing have focused on the spatial dimension of computations, however global computing requires also new ways of thinking about the temporal ...
Gian Luigi Ferrari, Eugenio Moggi, Rosario Puglies...
Abstract—In next-generation enterprises it will become increasingly important to retrieve information efficiently and rapidly from widely dispersed sites in a virtual enterprise...
In multi-agent systems, agents need to share information in order to make good decisions. Who does what in order to achieve this matters a lot. The assignment of responsibility in...
Tim Harbers, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Pedro A. Szekely
We present a method for transforming the infinite interactive state space of interactive POMDPs (I-POMDPs) into a finite one, thereby enabling the computation of exact solutions. ...
This paper describes an animated conversational agent called Kare1 which integrates a talking head interface with a linguistically motivated human-machine dialogue system. The age...