With the explosive growth of demand for services on the Internet, the networking infrastructure (routers, protocols, servers) is under considerable stress. Mechanisms are needed f...
In most multiagent systems with communicating agents, the agents have the luxury of using reliable, multi-step negotiation protocols. They can do so primarily when communication i...
If one has attributed certain initial beliefs to an agent, it is sometimes possible to reason about further beliefs the agent must hold by observing what conclusions one's ow...
While it is commonly agreed that analogy is useful in human problem solving, exactly how analogy can and should be used remains an intriguing problem. VanLehn (1998) for instance ...
Information-rich environments are the open environments that characterize most of the modern applications of computing technology. The applications include ubiquitous information a...