Inter-networked computers enable virtual collaborative work. In the course of interacting with one another, individuals send and receive messages and files of various sorts. This m...
Larry Korba, Ronggong Song, George Yee, Andrew S. ...
Discovering and studying emergent phenomena are among the most important activities in social research. Replicating this phenomenon in "the lab" using simulation is an i...
In this paper, we propose a representation of excuses in the context of multiagent systems. We distinguish five classes of excuses, taking as starting point both jurisprudential an...
Guido Boella, Jan Broersen, Leendert van der Torre...
The view that communication is a form of action serving a variety of specific functions has had a tremendous impact on the philosophy of language and on computational linguistics....
This paper presents a technology capable of enabling the creation of a diffuse, calibrated vision-sensor network from the wealth of socially generated geo-referenced imagery, freel...
Paul Chippendale, Michele Zanin, Claudio Andreatta