Virtual worlds can allow conversational participants to achieve common ground in situations where the information volume and need for clarification is low. We argue in favor of thi...
In this paper, we describe an alternative web paradigm, called the Web of People. Rather than a web of pages, it is a web of persons. The paradigm is motivated by a number of obvi...
Michel Plu, Pascal Bellec, Layda Agosto, Walter Va...
Internet-based multi-agent systems call for new metaphors, abstractions, methodologies and enabling technologies specifically tailored to agent-oriented engineering. While coordin...
Group facilitation is an important element of group approaches to Requirements Engineering (RE). The facilitation in ‘traditional’ face-to-face groups is challenged by the inc...
Daniela E. Damian, Mildred L. G. Shaw, Armin Eberl...
Abstract— Lack of generic digital rights management applications has stunted the growth of the media distribution industry. In this paper we point out the need for middleware ser...
Pramod A. Jamkhedkar, Gregory L. Heileman, Iv&aacu...