Abduction is an important inference process underlying much of human intelligent activities, including text understanding, plan recognition, disease diagnosis, and physical device...
In this paper we want to reconsider the role anthropology (both its theory and methods) can play within HCI research. One of the areas anthropologists can contribute to here is to...
Agent Based Web Services Market (AWSM) is a framework for agents to present and sell their capabilities as web services. Agents take certain roles and cooperate to constitute agent...
Society’s increasing dependence on software-intensive systems is driving the need for dependable, robust, continuously available systems. Runtime system reconfiguration is one a...
Applications of learning to autonomous agents (simulated or real) have often been restricted to learning a mapping from perceived state of the world to the next action to take. Of...