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2002
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13 years 7 months ago
Modeling and Simulating Work Practice: A Method for Work Systems Design
er than abstracting human behavior as work processes or tasks--functional idealizations of the work to be accomplished--we model people's activities comprehensively and chrono...
Maarten Sierhuis, William J. Clancey
IEEESCC
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Governance of Cross-Organizational Service Agreements: A Policy-Based Approach
Many real-life organizations are hierarchies of largely autonomous, heterogeneous members (individuals or other organizations), often exhibiting rich policies. We restrict our att...
Yathiraj B. Udupi, Munindar P. Singh
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Using the UML 2.0 activity diagram to model agent plans and actions
The behavior of an agent is defined through the specification of plans and actions. Agents have a set of plans that are selected to be executed according to their goals (and other...
Viviane Torres da Silva, Ricardo Choren, Carlos Jo...
IUI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Are two talking heads better than one?: when should use more than one agent in e-learning?
Recent interest in the use of software character agents raises the issue of how many agents should be used in online learning. In this paper we review evidence concerning the rela...
Hua Wang, Mark H. Chignell, Mitsuru Ishizuka
E4MAS
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
E4MAS Through Electronic Institutions
Abstract. Today, the concept of an environment for multi-agent systems is in its pioneering phase. Consequently, the development of supporting software technologies is still rather...
Josep Lluís Arcos, Pablo Noriega, Juan A. R...