Policy authors typically reconcile several different mental models and goals, such as enabling collaboration, securing information, and conveying trust in colleagues. The data un...
We report on the use of reinforcement learning with Cobot, a software agent residing in the wellknown online community LambdaMOO. Our initial work on Cobot (Isbell et al.2000) pro...
Charles Lee Isbell Jr., Christian R. Shelton, Mich...
From a software engineering perspective, agent systems are a specialization of object-oriented (OO) systems, in which individual objects have their own threads of control and thei...
To develop agent-based systems, one needs a methodology that supports the development process as common in other disciplines. In recent years, several such methodologies and model...
Checking pre- and post-conditions of procedures and methods at runtime helps improve software reliability. In the procedural world, pre- and post-conditions have a straightforward...