Toys and play-things are often engineered to replicate the character of real organisms. In the past, inventors often lavished great expense on their life-like automata, their cons...
The ability to reason about action and change has long been considered a necessary component for any intelligent system. Many proposals have been offered in the past to deal with ...
Steven Shapiro, Maurice Pagnucco, Yves Lespé...
Typically, autonomous believable agents are implemented using static, hand-authored reactive behaviors or scripts. This hand-authoring allows designers to craft expressive behavio...
Peng Zang, Manish Mehta, Michael Mateas, Ashwin Ra...
In a reputation-based trust-management system, agents maintain information about the past behaviour of other agents. This information is used to guide future trust-based decisions...
In this paper, we discuss some of the lessons that we have learned working with the Hadoop and Sector/Sphere systems. Both of these systems are cloud-based systems designed to sup...