RFID-based access control solutions for mobile environments, e.g. ticketing systems for sport events, commonly rely on readers that are not continuously connected to the back-end s...
We describe a bottom-up approach to the design of software agents. We built and tested an agent system that addresses the real-world problem of handling the activities involved in...
Henry A. Kautz, Bart Selman, Michael H. Coen, Stev...
Abstract. Within the field of software agents, there has been increasing interest in automating the process of calendar scheduling in recent years. Calendar (or meeting) schedulin...
This panel discusses specific challenges in the usability of access control technologies and new opportunities for research. The questions vary from “Why nobody, even experts, ...
Konstantin Beznosov, Philip Inglesant, Jorge Lobo,...
This paper presents a novel methodology to develop scheduling algorithms. The scheduling problem is phrased as a control problem, and control-theoretical techniques are used to de...
Carlo A. Furia, Alberto Leva, Martina Maggio, Paol...