Nowadays, as there is an increasing need to integrate the DBMS (for structured data) with Information Retrieval (IR) features (for unstructured data), DB-IR integration becomes one...
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) promotes the utilization of available services to develop completely new applications in a context which has not been foreseen as these services...
Web services (WS) provide a technology for integrating applications over the Internet. This paper proposes a multi-agent conceptual model of WS and an agent-oriented modelling and...
Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) are computer generated life-like characters that interact with human users in face-to-face conversations. To achieve natural multi-modal conve...
Hung-Hsuan Huang, Tsuyoshi Masuda, Aleksandra Cere...
We describe an agent architecture that integrates emotions, drives, and behaviors, and that focuses on modeling some of the aspects of emotions as fundamental components within th...