From a software engineering perspective, agent systems are a specialization of object-oriented (OO) systems, in which individual objects have their own threads of control and thei...
Linda is a high level communication model which allows agents to communicate via a shared tuple spaces without knowing each other’s identities and without having to arrange for ...
Naftaly H. Minsky, Yaron Minsky, Victoria Ungurean...
This paper describes and evaluates three methods for coordinating multiple agents. These agents interact in two ways. First, they are able to work together to achieve a common poo...
Steve A. Chien, Anthony Barrett, Tara A. Estlin, G...
We will examine in this paper three crucial aspects of trust dynamics: a) How A’s trusting B and relying on it in situation can actually (objectively) influence B’s trustworth...
This paper details results of an experiment to empirically evaluate the effectiveness and user acceptability of human-like synthetic agents in a multi-modal electronic retail scen...
Helen McBreen, Paul Shade, Mervyn A. Jack, Peter J...