This paper details results of an experiment to empirically evaluate the effectiveness and user acceptability of human-like synthetic agents in a multi-modal electronic retail scen...
Helen McBreen, Paul Shade, Mervyn A. Jack, Peter J...
Quality of Service (QoS) management becomes more and more important, especially in networks where many applications are competing for a limited number of resources. As these appli...
Stefan Fischer, Abdelhakim Hafid, Gregor von Bochm...
Software maintenance is responsible for as much as two thirds of the cost of any software, and is consequently an important research area. In this paper we focus on the change pro...
Future agent applications will increasingly represent human users autonomously or semi-autonomously in strategic interactions with similar entities. Hence, there is a growing need...
Since a number of years agent technology is considered one of the most innovative technologies for the development of distributed software systems. While not yet a mainstream appr...
Fabio Bellifemine, Giovanni Caire, Agostino Poggi,...