The coordination problem in multi-agent systems is the problem of managing dependencies between the activities of autonomous agents, in conditions of incomplete knowledge about th...
Fielding robots in complex applications can stress the human operators responsible for supervising them, particularly because the operators might understand the applications but n...
This paper is concerned with synthetic agents interacting with virtual environments, called animated creatures. The animated creatures are articulated graphical gures that are eq...
The mobile user can interact with devices in the environment using either the devices themselves or a device she carries with her. This requires an adaption of the user interface t...
To date, systems offering multitasking for the JavaTM programming language either use one process or one class loader for each application. Both approaches are unsatisfactory. Usi...