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ESAW
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Virtual Enterprise Normative Framework Within Electronic Institutions
Virtual Enterprises are a major trend within the B2B scenario. Technological support towards enabling this cooperation model includes the multi-agent systems paradigm. In this pape...
Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Eugénio C. Oliveira
CEEMAS
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Towards an Institutional Environment Using Norms for Contract Performance
Abstract. A strong research emphasis is being given towards regulating interoperable multi-agent environments through norms and institutions. We are concerned with environments in ...
Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Eugénio C. Oliveira
ATAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Reliable group communication and institutional action in a multi-agent trading scenario
This paper proposes the use of reliable group communication as a complement to traditional asynchronous messaging in multi-agent systems. In particular, the mechanism of message p...
Stephen Cranefield
VR
2010
IEEE
128views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
Relating conversational expressiveness to social presence and acceptance of an assistive social robot
Exploring the relationship between social presence, conversational expressiveness, and robot acceptance, we set up an experiment with a robot in an eldercare institution, comparing...
Marcel Heerink, Ben J. A. Kröse, Vanessa Ever...
C5
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Enabling Social Dimensions of Learning through a Persistent, Unified, Massively Multi-User, and Self-Organizing Virtual Environm
Existing online learning experiences lack the social dimension that characterizes learning in the real world. This social dimension extends beyond the traditional classroom into t...
Julian Lombardi, Mark P. McCahill