To respond to an utterance, a listener must interpret what others have said and why they have said it. Misunderstandings occur when agents differ in their beliefs about what has b...
In an e-service environment, contracts are important for attaining business process interoperability and enforcing their proper enactment. An e-contract is the computerized facili...
The emergence of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) has provided software developers with an effective and efficient shared language. However, UML is often too restrictive in init...
Christian Heide Damm, Klaus Marius Hansen, Michael...
Abstract--While a number of modeling languages for constructing multiagent systems (MASs) have been suggested, none of them is widely accepted and used. A prominent reason for this...
This paper introduces a class of statistical mechanisms, called hidden understanding models, for natural language processing. Much of the framework for hidden understanding models...
Scott Miller, Richard M. Schwartz, Robert J. Bobro...