Abstract. A crucial part of multi-agent system design is the design of agent interactions. Traditional approaches to designing agent interaction use interaction protocols, which fo...
Abstract. Open source software has become a common way of disseminating research results. In this talk, we first introduce the motivations and implications of releasing research pr...
Abstract. Wireless sensor networks benefit from communication protocols that reduce power requirements by avoiding frame collision. Time Division Media Access methods schedule tra...
Abstract. Current peer-to-peer architectures are hardly resistant against unanticipated exceptions such as the failure of single peers. This can be justified by the absence of soph...
This paper presents a new technology for supporting flexible query management in recommender systems. It is aimed at guiding a user in refining her query when it fails to return ...