It is only recently that rational exchange schemes have been considered as an alternative solution to the exchange problem. A rational exchange protocol cannot provide fairness bu...
Collaborative tagging systems are becoming very popular recently. Web users use freely-chosen tags to describe shared resources, resulting in a folksonomy. One problem of folksono...
Ching-man Au Yeung, Nicholas Gibbins, Nigel Shadbo...
The social news aggregator Digg allows users to submit and moderate stories by voting on (digging) them. As is true of most social sites, user participation on Digg is nonuniforml...
Optimal design is intractable in general. We identify a tractable class of design problems and propose the first framework for efficient, decision-theoretically optimal, collabo...
Although speech recognition systems have become more reliable in recent years, they are still highly error-prone. Other components of a spoken language dialogue system must then b...
Today’s air traffic management system is not expected to scale to the projected increase in traffic over the next two decades. Enhanced collaboration between the controllers and...
Shawn R. Wolfe, Francis Y. Enomoto, Peter A. Jarvi...
This paper describes a new agent framework that fuses an HTN planner, through its underlying conceptual model, with the mental attitudes of the BDI agent architecture, thus exploi...
Gerhard Wickler, Stephen Potter, Austin Tate, Mich...
The process of creating e-learning contents using reusable learning objects (LOs) can be broken down in two sub-processes: LOs finding and LO sequencing. Although semiautomatic to...
Wiki is a collaborative Web page authoring system. By using a Wiki system, we can build a Web site collaboratively by creating and updating Wiki pages through Web browsers. If agen...