Despite several examples of deployed agent systems, there remain barriers to the large-scale adoption of agent technologies. In order to understand these barriers, this paper consi...
Jez McKean, Hayden Shorter, Michael Luck, Peter Mc...
Based on five design principles extracted from a survey of location systems, we present the Location Stack, a layered software engineering model for location in ubiquitous comput...
Jeffrey Hightower, Barry Brumitt, Gaetano Borriell...
: Today’s network processor utilize parallel processing in order to cope with the traffic growth and wire-speed of current and future network technologies. In this paper, we stu...
Carsten Albrecht, Rainer Hagenau, Erik Maehle, And...
—The behavior of complex production automation systems is hard to predict, therefore simulation is used to study the likely system behavior. However, in a real-world system many ...
This paper presents an approach for building consensus ontologies from the individual ontologies of a network of socially interacting agents. Each agent has its own conceptualizat...