DTDs and XML Schema are important validation languages for XML documents. They lie at opposite ends of a spectrum of validation languages in terms of expressive power and readabil...
A helpful abstraction of a group of agents is a set of interacting roles, or sets of normative behaviors, that the agents can assume. An important characteristic of real-world agen...
James Odell, H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, ...
We present an agent-based Producer/Consumer scenario, that is the key element of manufacturing systems and therefore of utmost importance. We call it a MSWS-system, which is made u...
The properties of engineering structures such as cars, cell phones or bridges rely on materials and on the properties of these materials. The study of these properties, which are d...
David Basanta, Peter J. Bentley, Mark A. Miodownik...
This paper describes a personal service robot developed for assisting a user in his/her daily life. One of the important aspects of such robots is the user-friendliness in communi...
Jun Miura, Yoshiaki Shirai, Nobutaka Shimada, Yasu...