Service Oriented Architectures draw heavily on techniques for reusing and assembling off-the-shelf software components. While powerful, this programming practice is not without a ...
Giovanni Bernardi, Michele Bugliesi, Damiano Maced...
It is well known how challenging is the task of coding complex agents for virtual environments. This difficulty in developing and maintaining complex agents has been plaguing com...
We report on experience with using RDF to provide a rich content language for use with FIPA agent toolkits, and on RDFS as a metadata language. We emphasise their utility for prog...
Kit-ying Hui, Stuart Chalmers, Peter M. D. Gray, A...
This paper addresses the issue of developing agents capable of participating in several potentially simultaneous auctions of different kinds (English, First-Price, Vickrey), with ...
Marlon Dumas, Guido Governatori, Arthur H. M. ter ...
Ubiquitous and pervasive applications are aware of the context of the used resources. This class of application can benefit from mechanisms to discover resources (devices and sens...