This paper presents the key features of a new negotiation model for autonomous agents. The model is generic, handles multi-party and multi-issue negotiation, acknowledges the role...
Fernando Lopes, Augusto Q. Novais, Nuno J. Mamede,...
This paper presents an argumentation-based approach to deliberation, the process by which two or more agents reach a consensus on a course of action. The kind of deliberation we a...
Causality is a central issue in many AI applications. Social causality, in contrast to physical causality, seeks to attribute cause and responsibility to social events, and account...
This paper presents a context-aware middleware for multimodal dialogue applications. The middleware has the context tracing feature, which is the possibility of the middleware to ...
Multi-agent systems are a kind of concurrent distributed systems. In this work, some guidelines on how to create multi-agent systems using Erlang are presented. The modelled syste...
Carlos Varela, Carlos Abalde, Laura M. Castro, Jos...