In an unpredictable, heterogeneous world, intelligent agents depend on accurate social information; reputation, among the preeminent artifacts to transmit social evaluations, has b...
Isaac Pinyol, Mario Paolucci, Jordi Sabater-Mir, R...
History based models, introduced by Parikh and Ramanujam, provide a natural mathematical model of social interactive situations. These models offer a ”low level” description ...
— In this paper we present a formal description of PROSA, a P2P resource management system heavily inspired by social networks. Social networks have been deeply studied in the la...
Vincenza Carchiolo, Michele Malgeri, Giuseppe Mang...
This special issue describes a number of applications that utilize lifelike characters that teach indirectly, by playing some role in a social interaction with a user. The design ...
ors induce aptitudes: abstract skills and knowledge. Mentors foster attitudes: social skills and graces. In my experience of school, starting 70 years or so ago, quite regimented i...