By learning a range of possible times over which the effect of an action can take place, a robot can reason more effectively about causal and contingent relationships in the world...
This study of the flow of online discussions examined how earlier messages affected later messages along five dimensions: (1) evaluations (agree, disagree, or unresponsive actions...
We evaluate response times, in N-user collaborations, of the popular centralized (client-server) and replicated (peer-to-peer) architectures, and a hybrid architecture in which ea...
Although there are many high-quality models for program and evaluation planning, these models are often too intensive to be used in situations when time and resources are scarce. A...
This paper presents approaches for building, managing, and evaluating consensus ontologies from the individual ontologies of a network of socially interacting agents. Each agent h...