Recently, there has been increasing interest in the application of information processing technologies such as GSS to the field of negotiations. This paper explores the theoretical and practical integration of principled negotiation, the ESD framework, and the MeetingWorks GSS in supporting negotiation processes. Recent developments in negotiation theory and practice have identijed “‘principled...

Task farming is often used to enable parameter sweep for exploration of large sets of initial conditions for large scale complex simulations. Such applications occur very often in life sciences. Available solutions enable to perform parameter sweep by creating multiple job submissions with different parameters. This paper presents an approach to farm workflows, employing service oriented paradi...

Electrical steels can be classified into two groups: grain-oriented (GO) and non-oriented (NGO) electrical steel. NGO are mainly considered as core materials for different devices, such electric motors, generators, rotating machines. The magnetic properties texture evolution of depend on multiple factors (such chemical content, heat-treatment, rolling process) making the development new product...

This paper addresses the task allocation problem in an open, dynamic grid environments and service-oriented environments. In such environments, both grid/service providers and consumers can be modelled as intelligent agents. These agents can leave and enter the environment freely at any time. Task allocation under time constraints becomes a challenging issue in such environments because it is d...

AbstrAct: This paper focuses our agent-based approach to dialogue management equipped with a deliberation mechanism further extensible with additional features. The aim of this study has been to create a manager which can exhibit complex behaviour from two points of view – the development and runtime ones. To support the first case, the domain developer needs to provide a set of plans which tel...

In this work, an explicitly task-oriented approach to the active vision problem is presented. The system tries to reduce the most relevant components of the uncertainty in the world model, for the task the robot is currently performing. It is task oriented in the sense that it explicitly considers a task-specific value function. As test-bed for the presented active vision approach, we selected ...

Tiziana Catarci Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica “A. Ruberti” Universita di Roma “La Sapienza” Via Salaria, 113 00198 Rome, Italy [email protected] Benjamin Habegger Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica “A. Ruberti” Universita di Roma “La Sapienza” Via Salaria, 113 00198 Rome, Italy [email protected] Antonella Poggi Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica “A. Rub...