This paper presents three contributions to research on middleware load balancing. First, it describes the design of Cygnus, which is an extensible open-source middleware framework...
Jaiganesh Balasubramanian, Douglas C. Schmidt, Law...
We present a formal model of negotiation between autonomous agents. The purpose of the negotiation is to reach an agreement about the provision of a service by one agent for anoth...
Peyman Faratin, Carles Sierra, Nicholas R. Jenning...
In this paper we propose the design of an agent for the ART Testbed, a tool created with the goal of objectively evaluate different trust strategies. The agent design includes a tr...
: If multiple evaluators analyse the outcomes of a single user test, the agreement between their lists of identified usability problems tends to be limited. This is called the ‘e...
Arnold P. O. S. Vermeeren, Ilse van Kesteren, Math...
We describe an evaluation of spoken dialogue strategies designed using hierarchical reinforcement learning agents. The dialogue strategies were learnt in a simulated environment a...