The paper reviews the development of generic user modeling systems over the past twenty years. It describes their purposes, their services within user-adaptive systems, and the dif...
Multi-agent systems can be viewed as object-oriented systems in which their entities show an autonomous behavior. If objects could acquire such skill in a flexible way, agents coul...
This paper argues that complex, embedded software agent systems are best constructed with parallel, layered architectures. These systems resemble Minskian Societies of Mind and Br...
This paper presents a successful knowledge acquisition experiment in which subject matter experts that did not have any prior knowledge engineering experience succeeded to teach t...
Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Michael Bowman, Dori...