The present report documents the research activities undertaken in Task 3.1 of the COMIC project. The objective of the three years of research of Strand 3 is to develop a conceptual foundation for designing computational mechanisms of interaction for CSCW applications that can support the complex task of articulating distributed cooperative activities. The present deliverable presents analyses ...

This paper describes a type-oriented approach to the programming of social middlewares. It defines a collection of metamodeling features which allow programmers to declare the social interaction and agent types which make up the program of a multiagent society for some application domain. These features are identified and formalised taking into account a specification of social middlewares as p...

Why negotiators fail to find and implement mutually beneficial solutions is a central question in negotiation research. In answering this question, researchers have often focused on how situational and cognitive factors shape negotiators’ outcomes. The relationship between negotiators’ strategies and their subsequent outcomes is relatively less well investigated, although no less informative. I...

including robotics, artificial life, and artificial ecosystems. We present a new approach to human-computer interaction, called so&Z interaction. Its main characteristics are summarized by the following three points. First, interactions are realized as multimodal (verbal and nonverbal) conversation using spoken language, facial expressions, and so on. Second, the conversants are a group of huma...