Java offers the real possibility that most programs can be written in a type-safe language. However, for Java to be broadly useful, it needs additional expressive power. This pape...
The OKKAM initiative1 has recently highlighted the need of moving from the traditional web towards a "web of entities", where real-world objects descriptions could be ret...
The enormous number of questions needed to acquire a full preference model when the size of the outcome space is large forces us to work with partial models that approximate the u...
We consider problems where several individuals each need to make a yes/no choice regarding a number of issues and these choices then need to be aggregated into a collective choice...
Classic evaluation methods of believable agents are time-consuming because they involve many human to judge agents. They are well suited to validate work on new believable behavio...