Microsoft has proposed an identity metasystem to standardize identity services and the principles behind them. A location metasystem can support interoperation between location se...
Multi-agent systems (MAS) is an accepted paradigm in safety-critical systems, like the production automation. Agents control the underlying machinery they are representing and int...
Emerging Web standards promise a network of heterogeneous yet interoperable Web Services. Web Services would greatly simplify the development of many kinds of information agents a...
The perception of feeling cared for has beneficial consequences in education, psychotherapy, and medicine. Results from a longitudinal study of simulated caring by a computer are ...
The increasing importance of the Internet has motivated the exploration of new execution models based on mobile and dynamic entities to overcome the limits of the client/server mo...