Abstract. Multi-attribute negotiation has been extensively studied from a gametheoretic viewpoint. In negotiation settings, utility functions are used to express agent preferences....
This article considers the coordination language Reo, a Petri net variant called zero-safe nets, and intuitionistic temporal linear logic (ITLL). The first part examines the seman...
We present in this paper a method for document layout analysis based on identifying the function of document elements (what they do). This approach is orthogonal and complementary...
A fundamental requirement for cooperating agents is to agree on a selection of component values of objects that can be used for reliably communicating references to the objects, to...
This paper presents recent work using the Chill parser acquisition system to automate the construction of a natural-language interface for database queries. Chill treats parser ac...