Projects involving technology are notoriously dogged with difficulties and a number of lessons can be learned. Rather than detail examples from particular TEL projects, the author ...
— In this paper we address smooth and collision-free whole-body motion planning for humanoid robots. A two-stage iterative planning framework is introduced where geometric motion...
This work addresses the issue of obligations directed to groups of agents. Our main concern consists in providing a formal analysis of the structure connecting collective obligatio...
This paper reviews and assesses several theoretical perspectives on one type of business-to-business electronic marketplace—collaboration marketplaces. Whereas transaction-orien...
One vision of the “Semantic Web” of the future is that software agents will interact with each other using formal metadata that reveal their interfaces. We examine one plausibl...
Drew V. McDermott, Mark H. Burstein, Douglas R. Sm...