Abstract. For many years, the HCI community has harbored a vision of interacting with intelligent, embodied computer agents. However, the reality of this vision remains elusive. Fr...
Jodi Forlizzi, John Zimmerman, Vince Mancuso, Sony...
This paper presents a domain-independent architecture for facilitating visual problem solving between robots or softbots and humans. The architecture denes virtual and human agen...
Many practitioners view agent interaction protocols as rigid specifications that are defined a priori, and hard-code their agents with a set of protocols known at design time -- a...
In this paper, we present a multi-agent system implementing a fully distributed Social Network System supporting user profiles as FOAF profiles. This system is built around the ide...
Semantic Web Services (SWS), a new generation WWW technology, will facilitate the automation of Web service tasks, including automated Web service discovery, execution, compositio...