The near ubiquity of mobile phones in the world and in people's lives, have created new opportunities for reinterpretation of what these devices are and what they do. One area...
Normative environments are used to regulate multiagent interactions. In business encounters, agents representing business entities make contracts including norms that prescribe wh...
Electronic institutions (EIs) have been proposed as a means of regulating open agent societies. EIs define the rules of the game in agent societies by fixing what agents are permit...
Previous approaches to service selection are mainly based on capturing and exchanging the ratings of consumers to providers. However, ratings reflect tastes of the raters. Theref...
When designing purely physical products we do not necessarily have to understand what it is about their physicality that makes them work - they simply have it. However, as we desi...