While the sociality of software agents drives toward the definition of institutions for multi agent systems, their autonomy requires that such institutions be ruled by appropriate...
A key element for outsourcing critical parts of a business process in Service Oriented Architectures are Service Level Agreements (SLAs). They build the key element to move from so...
The utility of including loops in plans has been long recognized by the planning community. Loops in a plan help increase both its applicability and the compactness of representat...
Siddharth Srivastava, Neil Immerman, Shlomo Zilber...
: Originally founded in 1996, recently reorganized and refocused, the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech is an organization that is paving the way toward unders...
John M. Carroll, Doug A. Bowman, D. Scott McCricka...
Computing is moving toward a pervasive context-aware environment in which agents with limited resources will require external support to help them become context-aware. In this pa...