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AGENTS
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Software Agents and User Autonomy
: Software agents comprise a new area for research and soon will be embedded and ubiquitous in modern computing systems. In this formative phase, it is important to develop compreh...
Batya Friedman, Helen Nissenbaum
ECOOP
1998
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Mobile Objects and Mobile Agents: The Future of Distributed Computing?
This paper will lead you into the world of mobile agents, an emerging technology that makes it very much easier to design, implement, and maintain distributed systems. You will fin...
Danny B. Lange
IUI
1998
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
EDEM: Intelligent Agents for Collecting Usage Data and Increasing User Involvement in Development
Expectation-Driven Event Monitoring (EDEM) provides developers with a platform for creating software agents to collect usage data and increase user involvement in the development ...
David M. Hilbert, Jason E. Robbins, David F. Redmi...
ECOOPW
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Piccola - A Small Composition Language
Moore’s Law is pushing us inevitably towards a world of pervasive, wireless, spontaneously networked computing devices. Whatever these devices do, they will have to talk to and n...
Oscar Nierstrasz
IPPS
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Qos Control and Adaptation in Distributed Multimedia Systems
Presently, many distributed multimedia systems adapt to their changing environments and Quality of Service (QoS) requirements by exchanging control and feedback data between server...
Farid Naït-Abdesselam, Nazim Agoulmine
AGENTS
2001
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Specifying agent behavior as concurrent tasks
Software agents are currently the subject of much research in many interrelated fields. Unfortunately, there has not been enough emphasis on defining the techniques required to bu...
Scott A. DeLoach
CAISE
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Implementing Virtual Enterprises Using AGORA Multi-agent System
Abstract. In this paper, we describe how the AGORA multi-agent architecture is used to support Virtual Enterprises(VE). Software agents represent the partners of a VE, who collabor...
Jinghai Rao, Sobah Abbas Petersen
ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
An incentive compatible reputation mechanism
Traditional centralised approaches to security are difficult to apply to large, distributed marketplaces in which software agents operate. Developing a notion of trust that is ba...
Radu Jurca, Boi Faltings
SAINT
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Implementing Role-based Interactions for Internet Agents
Large-scale distributed environments, such as the Internet, achieve advantages in exploiting software agents for applications, thanks to their autonomy in carrying out tasks. In s...
Giacomo Cabri, Letizia Leonardi, Franco Zambonelli
ISPDC
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A Distributed Platform based on Web Services for Multimedia Resource Discovery
The paper describes ITW – a multi-platform and multilanguage architecture used to discover (multimedia) resources. The ITW system is based on Web services and software agents, e...
Sabin C. Buraga, Petrica Gabureanu