Electronic contracting as an object of legal studies is getting more and more complex. Computers are currently being used not only as a way of searching and processing information, but also as communication tools, as automatic operators and already as a way of developing and accessing new forms of intelligent behaviour through the use of intelligent devices. New ways of electronic contracting h...

Introduction We demonstrate an intelligent tutor that detects the content of collaborative behavior and offers relevant domain level interventions. Rashi is a domain independent intelligent tutor providing visitors with practice using inquiry skills. When working on human biology, visitors interact with a virtual sick patient whom they must successfully diagnose. Rashi supports visitors as they...

Ever increasing complexity, higher demand for proactiveness, and high speeds of innovation resulting from heavy competition, demand the adoption of more intelligent systems, which are capable of producing optimal results, in all fields. B2C E-Commerce applications are no different. The major challenge in transitioning a brick and mortar business to an online environment is to provide the same u...

Parallel processing is one approach to achieving the large computational processing capabilities required by many real-time computing tasks. One of the problems that must be addressed in the use of reconfigurable multiprocessor systems is matching the architecture configuration to the algorithms to be executed. This paper presents a conceptual model that explores the potential of artificial int...

In recent years, there is an increasing number of communication systems and intelligent tools supporting first responders and evacuees in the tasks of communication, decision-making, information exchange and coordination in emergency and crisis evacuation. This paper gives the state-of-the art of communication technologies for crisis and emergency evacuation and identifies challenges for usage ...

Purpose: Summary of the state-of-the-art of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence applied to Intelligent Manufacturing. Main applications are presented along with different technologies applied in these areas. Design/methodology/approach: Intelligent Manufacturing area was split into many segments, which require different approach to intelligent problem solving. Multiagent systems negotiation...

Intelligent user interfaces have been proposed as a means to overcome some of the problems that directmanipulation interfaces cannot handle, such as: information overflow problems; providing help on how to use complex systems; or real-time cognitive overload problems. Intelligent user interfaces are also being proposed as a means to make systems individualised or personalised, thereby increasin...

In this paper we propose an intelligent agent approach to control the electric power grid at a smaller granularity in order to give it self-healing capabilities. We develop a method using the influence model to transform transmission substations into information processing, analyzing and decision making (intelligent behavior) units. We also develop a wireless communication method to deliver rea...

Tcl/Tk is an attractive language for the design of intelligent agents because it allows the quick construction of prototypes and user interfaces; new scripts can easily be bound at runtime to respond to events; and execution state is encapsulated by the interpreter, which helps in agent migration. However, a system of intelligent agents must share a common language for communicating requests an...

We describe a language and protocol intended to support interoperability among intelligent agents in a distributed application. Examples of applications envisioned include intelligent multi-agent design systems as well as intelligent planning, scheduling and replanning agents supporting distributed transportation planning and scheduling applications. The language, KQML for Knowledge Query and M...