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Social Computing (SC) requires agents to reason seamlessly both on their social relationships and on their goals, beliefs. We claim the need to explicitly represent the social state and social relationships as resources, available to agents. We built a framework, based on JaCaMo, where this vision is realized and SC is implemented through social commitments and commitment protocols. 1998 ACM Su...

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems provide a new solution to distributed information and resource sharing because of its outstanding properties in decentralisation, dynamics, flexibility, autonomy and cooperation, summarised as DDFAC in this paper. After a detailed analysis of the current P2P literature, this paper suggests to better exploit peer social relationships and peer autonomy in order to achie...

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Research in distributed AI has led to computa tional techniques for providing AI systems with rudimentary social skills This paper gives a brief survey of distributed AI describing the work that strives for social skills that a person might acquire in kindergarten and highlighting important unre solved problems facing the eld

Research in distributed AI has led to computational techniques for providing AI systems with rudimentary social skills. This paper gives a brief survey of distributed AI, describing the work that strives for social skills that a person might acquire in kindergarten, and highlighting important unre-solved problems facing the eld.

This paper describes a multiagent architecture for webbased distance education systems that presents characteristics of intelligence and adaptability. This architecture is based on techniques of Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Planning and Intelligent Tutoring Systems. As a result, the system allows adaptation of a given course to different types of students.

Agent teamwork has been widely studied in the fields of Distributed AI. Much success has been achieved in defining agent teamwork theory to explain how agents should act together as a team and in developing programming frameworks to simulate team coordinations in software environment. With the advent of ubiquitous computing technology, agent teamwork research will be pushed to its limit, facing...