Verification and compliance testing are required if agents are to be delegated responsibility for legally binding contracts, for example in electronic markets. This paper describes...
In our previous research we suggested an approach to maximizing agents preferences over schedules of multiple tasks with temporal and precedence constraints. The proposed approach...
This paper discusses some modeling issues concerning the communication between goal-directed agents. In particular, the role of performatives in agent communication is discussed. I...
We propose an evolutionary framework for studying agents that interact in electronic marketplaces. We describe how this framework could be used to study the dynamics of interactio...
This article builds on insights into how humans cope with emotion to guide the design of virtual humans. Although coping is increasingly viewed in the psychological literature as ...