This paper demonstrates that work in digital enterprises—like work in conventional enterprises— can be carried out effectively by autonomous agents, subject to a regulatory r...
Interactive virtual worlds provide a powerful medium for experimental learning and entertainment. Nowadays, virtual environments often incorporate human-like embodied virtual agent...
Abstract. Today’s software systems have to deal with an increasing diversity and complexity of execution environments. Next generation applications will have to deal with the unk...
Enabling technology for realizing ad-hoc business processes currently is becoming more and more popular, like for example web services. Ad-hoc business processes are semantically c...
Abstract. In recent years ontologies – shared conceptualizations of some domain – are increasingly seen as the key to further automation of information processing. Although man...