Middle-agents are used by end-agents to locate service providers in multi-agent systems. One central middle-agent represents a single point of failure and communication bottleneck ...
New display technologies will enable designers to use every surface as a support for interaction with information technology. In this article, we describe techniques and tools for ...
Stanislaw Borkowski, Julien Letessier, James L. Cr...
Representation is a fluent. A mismatch between the real world and an agent's representation of it can be signalled by unexpected failures (or successes) of the agent's r...
The Web relies on the Domain Name System (DNS) to resolve the hostname portion of URLs into IP addresses. This marriage-of-convenience enabled the Web's meteoric rise, but th...
This paper describes the design and implementation of the distributed digital rights management (DDRM) system as undertaken by the eduSource project, a national network of learnin...
Stephen Downes, Gilbert Babin, Luc Belliveau, Raph...