Session management systems for collaborative applications have required a great deal of reimplementation work by developers because they have been typically created on a case-by-c...
This paperdescribesthe conceptual model of Strudel, a toolkit of generic components for conversation and action management. To empower work groups to more effectively conduct thei...
Social commitments are developed for multi-agent systems according to the current practice in law regarding contract formation and breach. Deafeasible commitments are used to provi...
In this paper we present some concepts and their relations that are necessary for modeling autonomous agents in an environment that is governed by some (social) norms. We divide th...
In a distributed multi-agent based software environment, the traditional monolithic user model ceases to exist and is replaced by user model fragments, developed by the various so...