maintain awareness of its environment for a long period of time. Additionally, knowledge-intensive agents must be engineered such that their knowledge can be easily updated as envi...
The goal of this paper is to present a computational framework that enables us to generate elementary speech act sequences in a dialogue between an electronic assistant and a compu...
Maintenance engineers need to understand component dependencies in a system to successfully modify component implementations. Interaction dependencies are especially hard to under...
In multi-hop wireless networks, every node is expected to forward packets for the benefit of other nodes. Yet, if each node is its own authority, then it may selfishly deny packe...
— Incentive protocols play a crucial role to encourage cooperation among nodes in networking applications. The aim of this paper is to provide a general analytical framework to a...