In open environments like the Web, and open Multiagent and Peer2Peer systems, consent among the autonomous, self-interested knowledge sources and users very often cannot be establ...
In real world applications, agents - be they software agents or autonomous robots - inevitably face erroneous situations that have not been planned for. Re-planning can sometimes ...
Robert J. Ross, Rem W. Collier, Gregory M. P. O'Ha...
—Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) is increasingly being applied to optimisation of problems in engineering design and scientific investigation. While readily adapted to singleo...
—This paper reports preliminary results of an ongoing ethnographic study of people’s attitudes towards and adoption of Google Latitude, a location-tracking technology for mobil...
The goal of my PhD is to investigate how older people exchange social support in empathic online communities. This will be achieved through an in-depth investigation of online com...