Chapter 12 Making Agents Acceptable To People (2008)
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Patrick Beautement, Maggie R. Breedy, Larry Bunch, Sergey V. Drakunov, Paul J. Feltovich, ...
Abstract. Because ever more powerful intelligent agents will interact with people in increasingly sophisticated and important ways, greater attention must be given to the technical and social aspects...
16. Making Agents Acceptable to People (2008)
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Patrick Beautement, Maggie R. Breedy, Sergey V. Drakunov, Paul J. Feltovich, Robert R. Hoffman, ...
Because ever more powerful intelligent agents will interact with people in increasingly sophisticated and important ways, greater attention must be given to the technical and social aspects of how to...
Kaa: Policy-based Explorations of a Richer Model for Adjustable Autonomy (2008)
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Hyuckchul Jung, Shri Kulkarni, Matthew Johnson, Paul Feltovich, Larry Bunch, ...
Though adjustable autonomy is hardly a new topic in agent systems, there has been a general lack of consensus on terminology and basic concepts. In this paper, we describe the multi-dimensional...
Coordination in Human-Agent-Robot Teamwork (2008)
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Paul J. Feltovich, Matthew Johnson, Larry Bunch, Maggie Breedy, Hyuckchul Jung, ...
Coordination is an essential ingredient of a teamworkcentered approach to autonomy. In this paper, we discuss some of the challenges and requirements for successful coordination, and briefly how we...
Jakub Szymaszek, Andrzej Uszok, Krzysztof Zielinski, Jakub Szymaszek, Andrzej Uszok, Krzysztof Zielinski
This paper presents experienc gathered when implementing the localization system for an o ce environment in CORBA. It describes methods which enable preserving ne-grained object-oriented structure of...
Integration of KAoS Policy Services with Semantic Web Services (2008)
Andrzej Uszok, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Gianluca Tonti, Renia Jeffers, Lars E. Olson
In this demo we present the integration of the universal ontology-based KAoS Policy and Domain Services [2, 10] with Semantic Web Services [1, 5, 8] running inside the Tomcat servlet container
Niranjan Suri, Jeffrey Bradshaw, Mark Burstein, Andrzej Uszok, Brett Benyo, Maggie Breedy, ...
Software agents have been proposed as a solution to integrate existing heterogeneous and stovepiped information systems. These capabilities extend agent autonomy to encompass communication and...
Management for Semantic Web Services (2008)
Andrzej Uszok, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Matthew Johnson, Renia Jeffers
domain services help with policy specification, analysis, disclosure, and enforcement for Semantic Web Services. The authors describe these capabilities in the context of three
Interoperability of Distributed Systems - a Gateway Solution (2007)
Cooperation of various distributed systems is today very desirable. Many solutions to this problem have been proposed. One of them is a gateway. It is an interoperability mechanism very well suited...
Active Badge System using CORBA (extended ) (2007)
Krzysztof Zieli'nski, Jakub Szymaszek, Andrzej Uszok
This paper presents the design and implementation of a new CORBA-based software for Active Badge System (ABS) originally designed at ORL in Cambridge UK [3]. Since the system was designed and...
Active Badge System using CORBA (extended ) (2007)
Krzysztof Zieli'nski Jakub, Jakub Szymaszek, Andrzej Uszok
This paper presents the design and implementation of a new CORBA-based software for Active Badge System (ABS) originally designed at ORL in Cambridge UK [3]. Since the system was designed and...
IIOP-domain Infrastructure for Inter-ORB Half-bridge-based Cooperation (2007)
Ma Lgorzata Steinder, Andrzej Uszok
This paper concerns IIOP-domain infrastructure that represents a collection of selected Object Services and technique of their usage by mediated request-level Inter-ORB Bridges built around IIOP-ORB...
Behavioural specification of grid services with the KAoS policy language (2005)
Luc Moreau, Jeff Bradshaw, Maggie Breedy, Larry Bunch, Pat Hayes, Matt Johnson, ...
Complex services in Service-Oriented Architectures such as the Grid typically require to be configured in multiple ways that cannot be anticipated by service designers; we illustrate this requirement...
Toward Trustworthy Adjustable Autonomy and Mixed-Initiative Interaction in KAoS (2004)
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Hyuckchul Jung, Shri Kulkarni, Matthew Johnson, Paul Feltovich, James Allen, ...
Abstract. Trust is arguably the most crucial aspect of agent acceptability. At its simplest level, it can be characterized in terms of judgments that people make concerning three factors: an...
Policy-based coordination in joint human-agent activity (2004)
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Paul Feltovich, Hyuckchul Jung, Shri Kulkarni, James Allen, Larry Bunch, ...
Abstract – In this paper, we outline an approach to policy-based coordination in joint human-agent activity. The approach is grounded in a theory of joint activity originally developed in the...
Toward Trustworthy Adjustable Autonomy and Mixed-Initiative Interaction in KAoS (2004)
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Hyuckchul Jung, Shri Kulkarni, James Allen, Larry Bunch, Nathanael Chambers, ...
Trust is arguably the most crucial aspect of agent acceptability. Many aspects of trust can be addressed through policy. Policies are a means to dynamically regulate the behavior of system components...
Policy and Contract Management for Semantic Web Services (2004)
Andrzej Uszok, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Renia Jeffers, Matthew Johnson
This paper summarizes our efforts to develop capabilities for policy and contract management for Semantic Web Services applications. KAoS services and tools allow for the specification, management,...
Intelligent Agents for Coalition Search and Rescue Task Support (2004)
Austin Tate Jeff, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Andrzej Uszok
The Coalition Search and Rescue Task Support demonstration shows cooperative agents supporting a highly dynamic mission in which AI task planning, inter-agent collaboration, workflow enactment,...
Andrzej Uszok, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Renia Jeffers, Austin Tate, Jeff Dalton
In this paper we describe our experience in applying KAoS services to ensure policy compliance for Semantic Web Services workflow composition and enactment. We are developing these capabilities...
Agent Systems for Coalition Search and Rescue Task Support (2004)
Austin Tate, Jeff Dalton, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Andrzej Uszok
Abstract. The Coalition Search and Rescue Task Support project shows cooperative agents supporting a highly dynamic mission in which AI task planning, inter-agent collaboration, workflow enactment,...
Dimensions of adjustable autonomy and mixed-initiative interaction (2004)
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Paul J. Feltovich, Hyuckchul Jung, Shriniwas Kulkarni, William Taysom, Andrzej Uszok
Abstract. Several research groups have grappled with the problem of characterizing and developing practical approaches for implementing adjustable autonomy and mixed-initiative interaction in...
Semantic Web languages for policy representation and reasoning: A comparison of KAoS (2003)
Gianluca Tonti, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Renia Jeffers, Rebecca Montanari, Niranjan Suri, Andrzej Uszok
Abstract. Policies are being increasingly used for automated system management and controlling the behavior of complex systems, allowing administrators to modify system behavior without changing...
Niranjan Suri, Jeffrey Bradshaw, Mark Burstein, Andrzej Uszok, Brett Benyo, Maggie Breedy, ...
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Terraforming cyberspace (2001)
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Niranjan Suri, Maggie Breedy, Alberto Cañas, Robert Davis, Kenneth Ford, ...
During the 1940s, under the pseudonym of Will Stewart, Jack Williamson published a series of fictional stories describing a process for attaching atmospheres to planets in order to make them capable...
Tate, Austin, Dalton, Jeff, Bradshaw, Jeffrey M., Uszok, Andrzej
The Coalition Search and Rescue Task Support (CoSAR-TS) has been a DARPA DAML Program project to provide advanced capabilities linking models of organizational structures, policies, and doctrines...
Active Badge System using CORBA (Extended Abstract) (1998)
Krzysztof Zielinski, Jakub Szymaszek, Andrzej Uszok
This paper presents the design and implementation of a new CORBA-based software for Active Badge System (ABS) originally designed at ORL in Cambridge UK [3]. Since the system was designed and...
Jakub Szymaszek, Andrzej Uszok, Krzysztof Zielinski
This paper presents experienc gathered when implementing the localization system for an office environment in CORBA. It describes methods which enable preserving fine-grained object-oriented...
Jakub Szymaszek, Andrzej Uszok
This paper presents experiences gathered when implementing the localization system for an office environment in CORBA. It describes methods which enable preserving fine-grain object-oriented...
A Tool for Monitoring Software-Heterogeneous Distributed Object Applications (1995)
Krzysztof Zieli'nski Aleksander, Er Laurentowski, Jakub Szymaszek, Andrzej Uszok
The next decade will bring radical changes to the way we do information processing, as applications composed of many cooperating distributed subsystems, exploiting different computational paradigms,...
A Monitoring System for Heterogeneous Distributed Environments (1995)
Aleksander Laurentowski, Er Laurentowski, Jakub Szymaszek, Krzysztof Zielinski, Andrzej Uszok
Introduction Emerging trends in high performance computing tend to exploit massively parallel systems (like SPP 1000) and distributed memory architectures (e.g. SP1, SP2). The most appropriate...
A Tool for Monitoring Software-Heterogeneous Distributed Object Applications (1995)
Krzysztof Zielinski, Aleksander Laurentowski, Er Laurentowski, Jakub Szymaszek, Andrzej Uszok
The next decade will bring radical changes to the way we do information processing, as applications composed of many cooperating distributed subsystems, exploiting different computational paradigms,...
Cluster Management Software for Open Object Oriented Systems (1994)
This paper addresses an issue of a cluster management software which supports parallel jobs processing in an object-oriented environment. A job submitted for computation represents a collection of...