Service-Oriented Computing and agent technology are nowadays two of the most active research areas in distributed and open systems. Given the growing interest in bridging the two worlds, in this paper we describe a novel approach for service description, discovery and composition in multiagent systems, based on organizational models. An extension to service matching techniques will be presented...

This paper describes a Demo showing the role of the Teleworkbench in the validation process of a multi-agent system, e.g., a traffic management system. In the Demo, we show the capability of the Teleworkbench in seamlessly bridging the simulation and experimentation with real robots. During experiments, important information is logged for analysis purpose. Additionally, a graphical user interfa...

This paper describes a Demo showing the role of the Teleworkbench in the validation process of a multi-agent system, e.g., a traffic management system. In the Demo, we show the capability of the Teleworkbench in seamlessly bridging the simulation and experimentation with real robots. During experiments, important information is logged for analysis purpose. Additionally, a graphical user interfa...

Considerable investment has been made to bring technology to schools and these investments have indeed resulted in many “success stories.” However there are two significant gaps in educational uses of technology that must be addressed. The first is a usage gap. Compared to how and how much today’s students use technology outside school, in-school technology usage is much less intensive and exte...

Much work in computer vision in the 70’s and 80’s aimed at the development of high-level vision, whereby the numerical processes feed a symbolic level of knowledge with which an agent is capable of interpreting the world. These early attempts were frustrated by the non-existence at the time of efficient algorithms for dealing with uncertainty, of tractable knowledge representation formalisms an...

1. Abstract The management of dynamic, information-rich domains, such as the Internet, Bio-Informatics, and Telecommunications, are fast becoming non-trivial tasks. Agent systems are a good solution for design domains where the standards for interoperability are rapidly evolving, the information growth is exponential, and the pressure for time-to-market is tremendous [13]. They reduce the manag...

In cyberworlds as well as in real world environments there is a need to enable cooperation and communication. While IT support has enabled us to overcome the barriers of time and place in communication over distance, there is still the problem of bridging the gap across different cultures. In this paper we will study the possibility of IT support for "sharing culture", i.e. for communication ac...

Boundary objects are artefacts that reside in the interface between communities and are capable of bridging assumed and experienced differences. Bridging is not, however, necessarily neutral or consensual activity. With an emphasis on documents, the present paper discusses the politics of boundary objects by analysing the role of archaeological reports at boundaries between communities with con...