The process of planning in complex, multi-actor environment depends strongly on the ability of the individual actors to perform intelligent decommitment upon specific changes in ...
We take two paradigms for information systems development, functionalism and social relativism, and apply their assumptions to the evaluation of ambient information systems. Ambie...
Abstract. Algorithmic progress and future technology threaten today’s cryptographic protocols. Long-term secure protocols should not even in future reveal more information to a...
Professional software developers use version control systems to coordinate their work, and to provide an unwindable history of their project’s evolution. In contrast, students i...
Abstract. Although several approaches to the semantics of agent communication have been proposed, none of them is really suitable for dealing with agent autonomy, which is a decisi...
Matthias Nickles, Michael Rovatsos, Gerhard Wei&sz...