Knowledge gathering and investigative tasks in open environments can be very complex because the problemsolving context is constantly evolving, and the data may be incomplete, unr...
Systems that support mobile agents are increasingly being used on the global Internet. Security concerns dealing with the protection of the execution environment from malicious ag...
Uwe G. Wilhelm, Sebastian Staamann, Levente Butty&...
Abstract. Mobile-agent systems must address three security issues: protecting an individual machine, protecting a group of machines, and protecting an agent. In this chapter, we di...
Robert S. Gray, David Kotz, George Cybenko, Daniel...
Several researchers, present authors included, envision personal mobile robot agents that can assist humans in their daily tasks. Despite many advances in robotics, such mobile ro...
Stephanie Rosenthal, Joydeep Biswas, Manuela M. Ve...
Users of complex applications need advice, assistance, and feedback while they work. We are experimenting with “adjunct” user agents that are aware of the history of interacti...
Robert G. Farrell, Peter G. Fairweather, Eric Brei...