Two main issues need to be covered when dealing with the dependability of component-based systems: quality assurance of reusable software components and quality assurance of the a...
Henry Muccini, Marcio S. Dias, Debra J. Richardson
Uncertainty always exists as an unavoidable factor when developing context-aware applications for pervasive computing environments [1][2][3][4]. In this paper, we propose a unifie...
Assistant Agents help ordinary people about computer tasks, in many ways, thanks to their rational reasoning capabilities about the current model of the world. However they face st...
In this paper we propose a novel method for automatic evaluation of conversational agents. The method is based on analyzing the user’s affect conveyed in utterances. From analyz...
Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Shinsuke Higuchi,...
In a reputation-based trust-management system, agents maintain information about the past behaviour of other agents. This information is used to guide future trust-based decisions...