In this paper, we present a social model for software agent conversations for action based on social commitments and their negotiation. We depart from the premises that conversati...
This paper describes an infrastructure that enables transparent development of image processing software for parallel computers. The infrastructure’s main component is an image ...
Web-based collaboration is becoming increasingly common. Often such collaboration exhibits emergent characteristics, for which systems based on a notion of workspaces provide suit...
We propose a preliminary methodology for agent-oriented software engineering based on the idea of agent interaction analysis. This approach uses interactions between undetermined a...
Reliability, security, scalability and QoS (Quality-of-Service) have become key issues as we envision the future Internet. This paper presents the "Cognitive Packet Network (C...