Societies need patterned behavior to exist. Large-scale agent societies may contain a diversity of agents, each with differing abilities and functionalities. When such an agent sys...
When human tutors engage in dialogue, they freely exploit allaspects of the mutually known context, including the previous discourse. Utterances that do not draw on previous disco...
Information processing in nervous systems intricately combines computation at the neuronal and network levels. Many computations may be envisioned as sequences of signal processin...
Finding relevant information on the Web can be a complex task for most of the users. Although Web search applications are improving, they still need to be more intelligent to adapt...
—In service-oriented architectures, participants keep interacting by exchanging tasks, in order to increase their benefit. Since carrying out a task incurs costs, and participan...