Previous work has addressed the development of a framework to categorise and understand agent-based systems. It described and formalised an agent-hierarchy that included objects, ...
Recently we had proposed two untraceability protocols for mobile agents and began investigating their quality. We believe that quality evaluation of security protocols should exte...
Stigmergy has been adopted in MAS (multi-agent systems) and in other fields as a technique for realising forms of emergent coordination in societies composed by a large amount of a...
Alessandro Ricci, Andrea Omicini, Mirko Viroli, Lu...
This paper presents PARADISE (PARAdigm for DIalogue System Evaluation), a general framework for evaluating spoken dialogue agents. The framework decouples task requirements from a...
Marilyn A. Walker, Diane J. Litman, Candace A. Kam...
—This document briefly describes a framework supporting the definition and implementation of virtual environment inhabited by interacting situated agents defined according to the...