One vision of the “Semantic Web” of the future is that software agents will interact with each other using formal metadata that reveal their interfaces. We examine one plausibl...
Drew V. McDermott, Mark H. Burstein, Douglas R. Sm...
Recent research has shown that virtual agents expressing empathic emotions toward users have the potentiality to enhance human-machine interaction. To provide empathic capabilitie...
We describe a visual interactive framework that supports the computation of syntactic unifiers of expressions with variables. Unification is specified via built-in transformatio...
Past years have witnessed a growing interest in automated negotiation as a coordination mechanism for interacting agents. This paper presents a generic, problem- and domain-indepen...
Computees are abstractions of the entities that populate global and open computing environments. The societies that they populate give an institutional meaning to their interaction...
Marco Alberti, Marco Gavanelli, Evelina Lamma, Pao...