The most important and interesting of the computing challenges we are facing are those that involve the problems and opportunities afforded by massive decentralization and disinte...
This paper proposes the use of reliable group communication as a complement to traditional asynchronous messaging in multi-agent systems. In particular, the mechanism of message p...
We present a brief observational, ‘ethnographic’, study of the Roughing Mill in a steel plant and use material from recorded activities to provide ‘illustrative vignettes’ ...
Karen Clarke, John A. Hughes, David Martin, Mark R...
Intelligent agents have to be able to merge informational inputs received from different sources in a coherent and rational way. Several proposals have been made for information m...
Samir Chopra, Aditya K. Ghose, Thomas Andreas Meye...
We present a novel method for analyzing social behavior. Continuous videos are segmented into action ‘bouts’ by building a temporal context model that combines features from s...