Web Services form a new distributed computing paradigm. Collaborative verification and validation are important when Web Services from different vendors are integrated together to...
Hai Huang, Wei-Tek Tsai, Raymond A. Paul, Yinong C...
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...
The Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment (ASE), currently flying onboard the Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) spacecraft, integrates several autonomy software technologies enabling autonomo...
Daniel Tran, Steve A. Chien, Rob Sherwood, Rebecca...
The goal of this Robot Ontology effort is to develop and begin to populate a neutral knowledge representation (the data structures) capturing relevant information about robots and...