Coordination and access control are related issues in open distributed agent systems, being both concerned with governing interaction between agents and resources. In particular, w...
Marco Cremonini, Andrea Omicini, Franco Zambonelli
– Building large software systems out of existing software components can save time and cost. These software components range from architectural and design components to binary c...
Graphical animation is a way of visualizing the behavior of design models. This visualization is of use in validating a design model against informally specified requirements and ...
Jeff Magee, Nat Pryce, Dimitra Giannakopoulou, Jef...
Affect sensitivity is of the utmost importance for a robot companion to be able to display socially intelligent behaviour, a key requirement for sustaining long-term interactions ...
Application autonomy can reduce interactions with users, ease the use of the system, and decrease user distraction. On the other hand, users may feel loss of control over their ap...