The design, development, and use of complex systems models raises a unique class of challenges and potential pitfalls, many of which are commonly recurring problems. Over time, res...
The ability to proactively offer assistance promises to make personal agents more helpful to their users. We characterize the properties desired of proactive behaviour by a person...
Neil Yorke-Smith, Shahin Saadati, Karen L. Myers, ...
The project DIANE is an EU-funded project in the ACTS Program and started in September 1995. The goal of DIANE is to establish a service, which enables an user to annotate anythin...
We study an extension of the "standard" learning models to settings where observing the value of an attribute has an associated cost (which might be different for differ...
In this paper, we propose a framework for modelling agent organizations, Omni, that allows the balance of global organizational requirements with the autonomy of individual agents....