In the area of agent-based computing there are many proposals for speciic system architectures, and a n umber of proposals for general approaches to building agents. As yet, however, there are few attempts to relate these together, and even fewer attempts to provide methodologies which relate designs to architectures and then to exe-cutable agents. This paper provides a rst attempt to address t...

A perspective towards modeling teamwork is presented. This perspective extends the Context Based Reasoning (CxBR) paradigm. The new paradigm is coined Collaborative Context Based Reasoning (CCxBR). CxBR corollaries are specified. Joint Intention Theory and Belief-Desire-Intention models are reviewed. CCxBR utilizes Joint Intention Theory as the justification for the theorems that are presented ...

Rapidly expanding information archives provide access to gigabytes of electronic data, via electronic museums, newspapers, musical archives, digital libraries, software archives, mailing lists, up-to-date weather information and geographic data. Consequently current advances in information technology are driven by the need to increase the personalization of information for the user. We believe ...

In this work we address the task of adapting the model representation of a given image, in the context of a second, target image model. We present the BlobEMD framework, in which the images are represented as sets of blobs and optimal correspondences are found between the representations of the images and are used to adapt the representation of the source image to that of the target image. The ...

Complexity and dynamism of day-to-day activities in organizations are inextricably linked, one impacting the other, increasing the challenges for constant adaptation of the way to organize work to address emerging demands. In this scenario, there are a variety of information, insight and reasoning being processed between people and systems, during process execution. We argue that process variat...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2014.02.001 1566-2535/ 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. ‘‘Context-awareness’’ might have entered the mainstream language and gained popular attention thanks to the ever increasing adoption of smart portable devices making their way into every activity of our lives. This has happened to the point that the concept of ‘‘smart’’ app (or device) has been pai...

Context-based computing has become an integral part of the software infrastructure of modern society. Better software are made adaptive to suit the surrounding environment. Context-based applications best fit into environments that undergo constant and frequent changes. Temperature management, Time management, GPS are just few examples where context-awareness becomes inevitable. Project Managem...

Ontologies are a widely accepted tool for the modeling of context information. We view the identification of the benefits and challenges of ontologybased models to be an important next step to further improve the usability of ontologies in context-aware applications. We outline a set of criteria with respect to ontology engineering and context modeling and discuss some recent achievements in th...

Automatically linking Wikipedia pages can be done either content based by exploiting word similarities or structure based by exploiting characteristics of the link graph. Our approach focuses on a content based strategy by detecting Wikipedia titles as link candidates and selecting the most relevant ones as links. The relevance calculation is based on the context, i.e. the surrounding text of a...