Software agents help automate a variety of tasks including those involved in buying and selling products over the Internet. Although shopping agents provide convenience for consume...
We describe an approach based upon software process technology to on-the-fly monitoring, redeployment, reconfiguration, and in general dynamic adaptation of distributed software ap...
Service matchmaking among heterogeneous software agents in the Internet is usually done dynamically and must be efficient. There is an obvious trade-off between the quality and eff...
Katia P. Sycara, Seth Widoff, Matthias Klusch, Jia...
Recognizing that trust states are mental states, this paper presents a formal analysis of the dynamics of trust in terms of the functional roles and representation relations for tr...
Tibor Bosse, Catholijn M. Jonker, Jan Treur, Dmytr...
In this paper we consider the problem of eCommerce comparison shopping agents (shopbots) that are limited by capacity constraints. In light of the phenomenal increase both in dema...