We present Dialog Moves Markup Language (DMML): an extensible markup language (XML) representation of modality independent communicative acts of automated conversational agents. I...
Decentralized resource allocation is a key problem for large-scale autonomic (or self-managing) computing systems. Motivated by a data center scenario, we explore efficient techn...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
The environment has been recognized as an explicit and exploitable element to design Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). It can be assigned a number of responsibilities that would be more d...
Eric Platon, Marco Mamei, Nicolas Sabouret, Shinic...
The paper discusses the relation between accessibility and multimodality of learning objects. I present a framework, rooted in linguistics, that supports a clear distinction betwee...
Systems constructed from components, including distributed systems, consist of a number of elements that interact with each other. As the number of network elements or interchangea...