The act of encountering information unexpectedly has long been identified as valuable, both as a joy in itself and as part of task-focused problem solving. There has been a concer...
(by Victor Raskin) This panel will address users’ perceptions and misperceptions of the risk/benefit and benefit/nuisance ratios associated with information security products, an...
Steven J. Greenwald, Kenneth G. Olthoff, Victor Ra...
We propose a general framework to represent changes in the mental state of a rational agent due to the acquisition of new information and/or to the arising of new desires; fundamen...
The organizational architecture of the multi-agent systems and the structure of social knowledge that the members of the community administer are critical factors for assuring suc...
The World-Wide-Web is less agent-friendly than we might hope. Most information on the Web is presented in loosely structured natural language text with no agent-readable semantics...