The TREC-8 Question Answering (QA) Track was the first large-scale evaluation of domain-independent question answering systems. In addition to fostering research on the QA task, ...
In this paper we define the concept of conversation policies: declarative specifications that govern communications between software agents using an agent communication language. ...
This chapter addresses the problem of producing and maintaining progress in agent design. New architectures often hold important insights into the problems of designing intelligenc...
One of the central objectives of the LOTOS restandardisation activity is to de ne an enhanced LOTOS language which supports real-time speci cation. The timed extension is based up...
: The new Gemplus smart card is based on the Java technology, embedding a virtual machine. The security policy uses mechanisms that are based on Java properties. This language prov...