Abstract. Esther is the interactive shell of Famke, a prototype implementation of a strongly typed operating system written in the functional programming language Clean. As usual, ...
Abstract. In many settings, bidding agents for auctions do not know their preferences a priori. Instead, they must actively determine them through deliberation (e.g., information p...
Abstract. Biologically inspired approaches to the design of general IT are presently flourishing. Investigating the scientific and historical roots of the tendency will serve to pr...
Abstract. The emergence of complex network structures of relationships between autonomous agents occurs in a wide range of distributed systems. Many researchers have proposed model...
Abstract. This paper describes PARMENIDES, a system which facilitates structured debate about government policy. 1 The PARMENIDES System The last two decades have seen a deliberati...
Katie Atkinson, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Peter Mc...