The existence of multiple parallel loops connecting sensorimotor systems to the basal ganglia has given rise to proposals that these nuclei serve as a selection mechanism resolvin...
When agents need to interact in order to solve some (possibly common) problem, resolving potential conflicts beforehand is often preferred to coordination during execution. Agents...
The status quo for co-located groupware is to assume that “social protocols” (standards of polite behavior) are sufficient to coordinate the actions of a group of users; howev...
There is a need to be able to program network components to adapt to application requirements for quality of service, specialised application dependent routing, to increase effici...
Service robots will have to accomplish more and more complex, open-ended tasks and regularly acquire new skills. In this work, we propose a new approach to generating plans for su...