This paper presents the design and architecture of an integrated environment that provides location independent and mobile access to Intelligent Domotic Environments. The envision...
Increasingly pervasive networks are leading towards a world where data is constantly in motion. In such a world, conventional techniques for query processing, which were developed...
Conversations involving three or more agents often occur in multi-agent systems, for example in brokering and auction protocols typically used in e-commerce. For developing agents ...
MetaML is a multi-stage functional programming language featuring three constructs that can be viewed as statically-typed refinements of the back-quote, comma, and eval of Scheme....
Commitment management is a key issue in service-provisioning in the context of virtual organisations (VOs). A service-provider — which may be a single agent acting within an orga...