Widespread access to the Internet has led to the formation of geographically dispersed scientific communities collaborating through the network. The tools supporting such collabor...
An important drawback to the popular Belief, Desire, and Intentions (BDI) paradigm is that such systems include no element of learning from experience. In particular, the so-calle...
In many applications, tasks can be delegated to intelligent agents. In order to carry out a task, an agent should reason about what types of resources the task requires. However, ...
Murat Sensoy, Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos, Timothy ...
Data consistency is very desirable because strong semantic properties make it easier to write correct programs that perform as users expect. However, there are good reasons why co...
In many sensor networking environments, the sensor nodes have limited battery capacity and processing power. Hence, it is imperative to develop solutions that are energy-efficient...