Most agent systems today are closed and static. That is, one uses Agent-Oriented Software Engineering techniques to build agent systems in which the set of agents is specified ahe...
Negotiation is essential in settings where agents have conflicting interests and a desire to cooperate. In many approaches, agents are assumed to have pre-set, fixed preferences...
Abstract. In the philosophy of behavior-based robotics, design of complex behavior needs the interaction of basic behaviors that are easily implemented. Action selection mechanism ...
We present a non-operational approach to specifying and analyzing shared memory consistency models. The method uses higher order logic to capture a complete set of ordering constra...
Yue Yang, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Gary Lindstrom, K...
Searchers can have problems devising queries that accurately express their, often dynamic, information needs. In this paper we describe an adaptive approach that uses unobtrusive ...