Autonomous mobile robots are considered a valuable technology for search and rescue applications, where an initially unknown environment has to be explored to locate human victims...
Case-based reasoning (CBR) has a great deal to o er in supporting creative design, particularly processes that rely heavily on previous design experience, such as framing the prob...
We present a new, block-based image codec based on sparse representations using a learned, structured dictionary called the IterationTuned and Aligned Dictionary (ITAD). The quest...
This paper studies adaptive bilateral negotiation between software agents in e-commerce environments. Specifically, we assume that the agents are self-interested, the environment...
Agents are a useful abstraction frequently employed as a basic building block in modeling service, information and resource sharing in global environments. The connecting of reques...