Automated negotiation by software agents is a key enabling technology for agent mediated e-commerce. To this end, this paper considers an important class of such negotiations — ...
As ubiquitous computing technology migrates into the home environment, there has been a concurrent effort to allow users to build and customize such technologies to suit their own...
Khai N. Truong, Elaine M. Huang, Molly M. Stevens,...
Automated tools for mediating incoming interruptions are necessary in order to balance the concentration required for software development with the need to collaborate and absorb ...
The nearly three dozen core technologies of computing sit in a simple framework defined by great principles and by computing practices. The great principles are of two kinds, mech...
This paper studies the logic of a dyadic modal operator for being obliged to meet a condition ρ before a condition δ becomes true. Starting from basic intuitions we arrive at a s...
Jan Broersen, Frank Dignum, Virginia Dignum, John-...