Abstract. If we are to enable agents to handle increasingly greater levels of complexity, it is necessary to equip them with mechanisms that support greater degrees of autonomy. Th...
: In information systems that support knowledge-discovery applications such as scientific exploration, reliance on highly structured ontologies as data-organization aids can be lim...
Agents or agent teams deployed to assist humans often face the challenges of monitoring the state of key processes in their environment (including the state of their human users t...
Pradeep Varakantham, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Milind T...
Embodied agents present ongoing challenging agenda for research in multi-modal user interfaces and humancomputer-interaction. Such agent metaphors will only be widely applicable t...
New applications for autonomous robots bring them into the human environment where they are to serve as helpful assistants to untrained users in the home or office, or work as ca...