To increase the lifetime of the sensor networks, a recognized method is to switch off/on some sensor nodes between “sleep” and “activity” mode in order to save the energy....
This paper describes a new agent framework that fuses an HTN planner, through its underlying conceptual model, with the mental attitudes of the BDI agent architecture, thus exploi...
Gerhard Wickler, Stephen Potter, Austin Tate, Mich...
Whether a particular computing installation meets its security goals depends on whether the administrators can create a policy that expresses these goals—security in practice re...
Sergey Bratus, Alex Ferguson, Doug McIlroy, Sean W...
Despite the acceptance of FIPA-ACL as a standard for agent communications, there exist a gap between its specification and infrastructures to support interactions among agents. The...
Web data extraction is concerned, among other things, with routine data accessing and downloading from continuously-updated dynamic Web pages. There is a relevant trade-off between...