Limone is a new coordination model and middleware that enables rapid application development for wireless ad hoc networks entailing logical mobility of agents and physical mobility of hosts. Designed to function in open environments, Limone performs automatic agent discovery but filters the results to define for each agent an individualized acquaintance list in accordance with run-time policies...

The processes and patterns of strategies used by children when drawing on the computer with friends and acquaintances were investigated in a case study. The participants were five-and-six-year-old children and the study took place in their home settings. The data collection methods consisted of interviews, observations, audio recordings, video recordings, drawing artifacts, and screen capture. ...

In this paper, I begin to explore what a naïve realist might say about the phenomenology of episodic memory. start by arguing that, when it comes accounting for memory experiences, there are two primary options available realist: treat along same lines as perceptual – involving phenomenal character that is grounded in acquaintance with external environment or lacking such acquaintance-based cha...

Interactions are a core part of all multi-agent systems. They occur because of the inter-dependencies that inevitably exist between the agents and they manifest themselves in many different forms—including cooperation, coordination, and collaboration. However, perhaps the most fundamental and powerful mechanism for managing these inter-agent dependencies at run-time is negotiation—the process b...