It is widely accepted in Distributed Artificial Intelligence that a crucial property of artificial agents is their autonomy. Whereas agent autonomy enables features of agent-base...
The spread of influence among individuals in a social network can be naturally modeled in a probabilistic framework, but it is challenging to reason about differences between vari...
Dan Cosley, Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Jon M. Kleinbe...
In this paper we discuss the development of tools to support a system for edemocracy that is based upon and makes use of existing theories of argument representation and evaluatio...
Government e-services available to citizens represent one of the most frequent and critical points of contact between public administrations and citizens. In addition to common se...
In the first part of this paper, we present a framework for enriching arbitrary upper or domain-specific ontologies with a concept of time. To do so, we need the notion of a time ...