The Wine Agent is a demonstration system that uses an underlying domain ontology to provide suitable wines for a given meal. In doing so it serves as a testbed, not only for the l...
Abstract. The shift from Web pages to Web services enables programmatic access to the near limitless information on the World Wide Web. Autonomous agents should generate concise an...
Michael Czajkowski, Anna L. Buczak, Martin O. Hofm...
Abstract. Current trends in software development show a move towards supporting autonomous components (agents). The accurate timing of interactions between such components is growi...
Much of the literature on responsibility in the IT field addresses the responsibilities of members of the IT profession. In this paper, we investigate to what extent the responsibi...
SweetDeal is a rule-based approach to representation of business contracts that enables software agents to create, evaluate, negotiate, and execute contracts with substantial auto...