The Internet and corporate intranets provide far more information than anybody can absorb. People use search engines to find the information they require. However, these systems t...
Agent-oriented programming has been motivated in part by the conception that high-level programming constructs based on common tions such as beliefs and goals provide appropriate a...
We combine two complementary ideas for learning supertaggers from highly ambiguous lexicons: grammar-informed tag transitions and models minimized via integer programming. Each st...
Generic constructions of designated confirmer signatures follow one of the following two strategies; either produce a digital signature on the message to be signed, then encrypt th...
This paper presents a BDI-based agent-oriented programming language, called 2APL (A Practical Agent Programming Language). This programming language facilitates the implementation...