The NASA Personnel Security Processing Expert System is a tool that automatically determines the appropriate personnel background investigation required for a civil servant or con...
This paper addresses the dynamic service selection and composition issues for the satisfaction of user requirements. We propose an approach in which agents perform service composi...
Wepresent our approach to agent modelingfor communication, and compareit to an approach to agent modelingfor other types of action. The comparisonshould be instructive since both ...
Many agent-based systems rely for their effectiveness on the intelligence of individual agents, and interaction among agents is required simply to coordinate these individually com...
Autonomousagentsin the real world must be capableof asynchronous goal generation. However, one consequence of this ability is that the agent may generate a substantial number of go...