Many learning systems suffer from the utility problem; that is, that time after learning is greater than time before learning. Discovering how to assure that learned knowledge wil...
Temporal projection-predicting future states of a changing world-has been studied mainly as a formal problem. Researchers have been concerned with getting the concepts of causalit...
This special issue describes a number of applications that utilize lifelike characters that teach indirectly, by playing some role in a social interaction with a user. The design ...
The problem of partner finding is to identify which entities (agents) can provide requested services from a group of entities. It can be found in open and distributed environment...
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...