This paper synthesizes two trends in the engineering of agent-based systems. One, modern agent-oriented methodologies deal with the key aspects of software development including re...
A voting protocol for decision-making in virtual organizations is presented. In an agent-based virtual organization the functions of formation, management and dissolution of the o...
Jeremy V. Pitt, Lloyd Kamara, Marek J. Sergot, Ale...
A directed agent implies an agent with high constraints in both recognition and motion. Because of the embodied restrictions, the directed agent perceives a sense of subjective di...
In the past emotions have been dismissed as a distraction to the logical, scientific thought process. More recently however, the importance of emotion in human-like intelligence a...
Abstract. Computers support more and more tasks in the personal and professional activities of users. Such user tasks increasingly span large periods of time and many locations acr...