This chapter aims to introduce the reader to the basic issues surrounding the design and implementation of intelligent agents. It begins by motivating the idea of an agent, present...
In this paper we develop a notion of “objective trust” for Software Agents, that is trust of, or between, Agents based on actual experiences between those Agents. Experiential ...
We present a general method for agents using ontologies as part of their knowledge representation to teach each other concepts to improve their communication and thus cooperation ...
Mobile agent technology has emerged as a promising programming paradigm for developing highly dynamic and large-scale service-oriented computing middlewares due to its desirable fe...
We describe novel approaches to multimedia analysis and synthesis problems. We first present the experiential sampling technique which has the ability to focus on the analysis task...