An entropy inspired measure for evaluating ontology modularization (2009)
Doran, Paul, Tamma, Valentina, Payne, Terry R., Palmisano, Ignazio
Ontology modularization has received growing interest from the research community lately, since it has been shown to support a variety of tasks for ontology engineers and users alike, such as...
Dynamic selection of ontological alignments: a space reduction mechanism (2009)
Doran, Paul, Tamma, Valentina, Payne, Terry R., Palmisano, Ignazio
Effective communication in open environments relies on the ability of agents to reach a mutual understanding of the exchanged message by reconciling the vocabulary (ontology) used. Various approaches...
Flexible Provisioning of Web Service Workflows (2009)
Stein, Sebastian, Payne, Terry R., Jennings, N. R.
Web services promise to revolutionise the way computational resources and business processes are offered and invoked in open, distributed systems, such as the Internet. These services are described...
Flexible Selection of Heterogeneous and Unreliable Services in Large-Scale Grids (2009)
Stein, Sebastian, Payne, Terry R., Jennings, Nicholas R.
As Grids become larger and more interconnected in nature, scientists can benefit from a growing number of distributed services that may be invoked on demand to complete complex computational...
Applying Ontology Modularization to Argumentation over Ontology Correspondences in MAS (2009)
Doran, Paul, Tamma, Valentina, Palmisano, Ignazio, Payne, Terry R.
Efficient agent communication in open and dynamic environments relies on the agents ability to reach a mutual understanding over message exchanges. Such environments are characterized by the...
Emergent Service Provisioning and Demand Estimation through Self-Organizing Agent Communities (2009)
Jacyno, Mariusz, Bullock, Seth, Luck, Michael, Payne, Terry R.
A major challenge within open markets is the ability to satisfy service demand with an adequate supply of service providers, especially when such demand may be volatile due to changing requirements,...
Web Services from an Agent Perspective (2008)
Terry R. Payne, R. Payne, Terry R. Payne
This material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying...
Dynamic Change Evaluation for Ontology Evolution in the Semantic Web (2008)
Palmisano, Ignazio, Tamma, Valentina, Iannone, Luigi, Payne, Terry R., Doran, Paul
Changes in an ontology may have a disruptive impact on any system using it. This impact may depend on structural changes such as introduction or removal of concept definitions, or it may be related...
Autonomic resource management through self-organising agent communities (2008)
Jacyno, Mariusz, Bullock, Seth, Payne, Terry R., Geard, Nicholas, Luck, Michael
In this paper, we analyse how autonomic resource management can be achieved within a system that lacks centralized information about current system demand and the state of system elements. Rather,...
M. C. Schraefel, Gareth V. Hughes, Hugo R. Mills, Graham Smith, Terry R. Payne, Jeremy Frey
The UK e-Science programme is relying on the evolution of the paper lab book into a pervasive data gathering lab system. To date take up of existing commercial or research lab book replacement...
Intelligence, Agents and Multimedia Group (2008)
Jamie Lawrence, Terry R. Payne
Not all human–computer interactions are directly derived from the concious intention of a user. There are a class of interactions which occur as a side effect of the user’s current goals but...
2006b. Flexible provisioning of semantic web service workflows using a QoS ontology (2008)
Sebastian Stein, Terry R. Payne, Nicholas R. Jennings
Semantic Web services allow applications to automatically discover and provision distributed services at runtime. However, when such services are offered by autonomous providers, as is common in...
Web Services from an Agent Perspective (2008)
The growth of automated services on the Web has facilitated the emergence of a new software development paradigm. This paradigm is based on the composition of disparate services to achieve...
Web Services from an Agent Perspective (2008)
The growth of automated services on the Web has facilitated the emergence of a new software development paradigm. This paradigm is based on the composition of disparate services to achieve...
ABSTRACT RCal: A Case Study on Semantic Web Agents (2008)
The Semantic Web promises to change the way agents navigate, harvest and utilize information on the internet. By providing a structured, distributed representation for expressing concepts and...
Terry R. Payne, Massimo Paolucci, Rahul Singh, Katia Sycara
To utilize services provided by other agents, a requesting agent needs to locate and communicate with these service providers. Specifically, in order to interoperate with the providers, the...
Education 1994-1998 Ph.D. entitled Dimensionality Reduction for Agent-Based Learning (2008)
Developed data representation and dimensionality reduction techniques for agent-based machine learning tasks. This involved the development of Case-Based and Inductive Learning systems, and...
Flexible Provisioning of Web Service Workflows (2008)
Stein, Sebastian, Payne, Terry R., Jennings, N. R.
Web services promise to revolutionise the way computational resources and business processes are offered and invoked in open, distributed systems, such as the Internet. These services are described...
Dynamic Ontology Evolution in Open Environments (2008)
Palmisano, Ignazio, Tamma, Valentina, Iannone, Luigi, Payne, Terry R., Doran, Paul
Changes in an ontology may have a disruptive impact on any system using it. This impact may depend on structural changes such as name changes or relations between concepts, or it may be related to a...
Is a Semantic Web Agent a Knowledge-Savvy Agent? (2008)
Tamma, Valentina, Payne, Terry R.
The issue of knowledge sharing has permeated the field of distributed AI and in particular, its successor, multiagent systems. Through the years, many research and engineering efforts have tackled...
Flexible QoS-Based Service Selection and Provisioning in Large-Scale Grids (2008)
Stein, Sebastian, Payne, Terry R., Jennings, Nicholas R.
As Grids become larger, more open and dynamic in nature, it will inevitably become necessary to deal with service failures and mitigate uncertainty in the execution of large service workflows. To...
Flexible provisioning of web service workflows (2008)
Sebastian Stein, Terry R. Payne, Nicholas R. Jennings
Web services promise to revolutionise the way computational resources and business processes are offered and invoked in open, distributed systems, such as the Internet. These services are described...
Flexible provisioning of web service workflows (2008)
Sebastian Stein, Terry R. Payne, Nicholas R. Jennings
Web services promise to revolutionise the way computational resources and business processes are offered and invoked in open, distributed systems, such as the Internet. These services are described...
University of Aberdeen, (2007)
Interface agents are software applications which aid and assist users in performing simple tasks. Many early agent systems relied on user-defined scripts to determine their behaviour. Recently,...
ABSTRACT RCal: A Case Study on Semantic Web Agents (2007)
The Semantic Web promises to change the way agents navigate, harvest and utilize information on the internet. By providing a structured, distributed representation for expressing concepts and...
The Semantic Web Calendar Agents on the Semantic Web (2007)
James Hendler, Terry R. Payne, Rahul Singh, Katia Sycara
The Web was designed to be a distributed information space that seamlessly supports human navigation across related, linked documents on the Internet. Its simplicity of use and the easy way users can...
Terry R. Payne, Massimo Paolucci, Rahul Singh, Katia Sycara
To utilize services provided by other agents, a requesting agent needs to locate and communicate with these service providers. Specifically, in order to interoperate with the providers, the...
Experience-based Reinforcement Learningto Acquire E ective Behavior in a Multi-agent Domain (2007)
Sachiyo Arai, Katia Sycara, Terry R. Payne
Abstract. In this paper, we discuss Pro t-sharing, an experience-based reinforcement learning approach (which is similar to a Monte-Carlo based reinforcement learning method) that can be used to...
Experience-based Reinforcement Learningto Acquire E ective Behavior in a Multi-agent Domain (2007)
Sachiyo Arai, Katia Sycara, Terry R. Payne
Abstract. In this paper, we discuss Pro t-sharing, an experience-based reinforcement learning approach (which is similar to a Monte-Carlo based reinforcement learning method) that can be used to...
Sensitivity Analysis of Flexible Provisioning (2007)
Stein, Sebastian, Payne, Terry R., Jennings, Nicholas R.
This technical report contains a sensitivity analysis to extend our previous work. We show that our flexible service provisioning strategy is robust to inaccurate performance information (when the...
Sensitivity Analysis of Flexible Provisioning (2007)
Stein, Sebastian, Payne, Terry R., Jennings, N. R.
This technical report contains a sensitivity analysis to extend our previous work. We show that our flexible service provisioning strategy is robust to inaccurate performance information (when the...
Sensitivity Analysis of Flexible Provisioning (2007)
Stein, Sebastian, Payne, Terry R., Jennings, N. R.
This technical report contains a sensitivity analysis to extend our previous work. We show that our flexible service provisioning strategy is robust to inaccurate performance information (when the...
An Advanced Bidding Agent for Advertisement Selection on Public Displays (2007)
Rogers, Alex, David, Esther, Payne, Terry R., Jennings, Nicholas R.
In this paper we present an advanced bidding agent that participates in first-price sealed bid auctions to allocate advertising space on BluScreen -- an experimental public advertisement system that...
Argumentation over Ontology Correspondences in MAS (2007)
Laera, Loredana, Blacoe, Ian, Tamma, Valentina, Payne, Terry R., Euzenat, Jerome, Bench-Capon, Trevor
In order to support semantic interoperation in open environments, where agents can dynamically join or leave and no prior assumption can be made on the ontologies to align, the different agents...
Provisioning Heterogeneous and Unreliable Providers for Service Workflows (2007)
Stein, Sebastian, Jennings, Nicholas R., Payne, Terry R.
In this paper, we address the problem of provisioning unreliable and heterogeneous service providers for the constituent tasks of abstract workflows. Specifically, we deal with unreliable providers...
An Effective Strategy for the Flexible Provisioning of Service Workflows (2007)
Stein, Sebastian, Payne, Terry R., Jennings, Nicholas R.
Recent advances in service-oriented frameworks and semantic Web technologies have enabled software agents to discover and invoke resources over large distributed systems, in order to meet their...
Formal Specification of OWL-S with Object-Z (2007)
Wang, Hai W., Saleh, Ahmed, Payne, Terry R., Gibbins, Nicholas
Semantic Web Services, one of the most significant research areas within the Semantic Web vision, has been recognized as a promising technology that exhibits huge commercial potential, and attracts a...
Provisioning Heterogeneous and Unreliable Providers for Service Workflows (2007)
Stein, Sebastian, Jennings, Nicholas R., Payne, Terry R.
Service-oriented technologies enable software agents to dynamically discover and provision remote services for their workflows. Current work has typically assumed these services to be reliable and...
An Advanced Bidding Agent for Advertisement Selection on Public Displays (2007)
Rogers, Alex, David, Esther, Payne, Terry R., Jennings, N. R.
In this paper we present an advanced bidding agent that participates in first-price sealed bid auctions to allocate advertising space on BluScreen -- an experimental public advertisement system that...
Argumentation over Ontology Correspondences in MAS (2007)
Laera, Loredana, Blacoe, Ian, Tamma, Valentina, Payne, Terry R., Euzenat, Jerome, Bench-Capon, Trevor
In order to support semantic interoperation in open environments, where agents can dynamically join or leave and no prior assumption can be made on the ontologies to align, the different agents...
Provisioning Heterogeneous and Unreliable Providers for Service Workflows (2007)
Stein, Sebastian, Jennings, N. R., Payne, Terry R.
In this paper, we address the problem of provisioning unreliable and heterogeneous service providers for the constituent tasks of abstract workflows. Specifically, we deal with unreliable providers...
An Effective Strategy for the Flexible Provisioning of Service Workflows (2007)
Stein, Sebastian, Payne, Terry R., Jennings, N. R.
Recent advances in service-oriented frameworks and semantic Web technologies have enabled software agents to discover and invoke resources over large distributed systems, in order to meet their...
Formal Specification of OWL-S with Object-Z (2007)
Wang, Hai W., Saleh, Ahmed, Payne, Terry R., Gibbins, Nicholas
Semantic Web Services, one of the most significant research areas within the Semantic Web vision, has been recognized as a promising technology that exhibits huge commercial potential, and attracts a...
Provisioning Heterogeneous and Unreliable Providers for Service Workflows (2007)
Stein, Sebastian, Jennings, N. R., Payne, Terry R.
Service-oriented technologies enable software agents to dynamically discover and provision remote services for their workflows. Current work has typically assumed these services to be reliable and...
An Advanced Bidding Agent for Advertisement Selection on Public Displays (2007)
Rogers, Alex, David, Esther, Payne, Terry R., Jennings, N. R.
In this paper we present an advanced bidding agent that participates in first-price sealed bid auctions to allocate advertising space on BluScreen -- an experimental public advertisement system that...
Argumentation over Ontology Correspondences in MAS (2007)
Laera, Loredana, Blacoe, Ian, Tamma, Valentina, Payne, Terry R., Euzenat, Jerome, Bench-Capon, Trevor
In order to support semantic interoperation in open environments, where agents can dynamically join or leave and no prior assumption can be made on the ontologies to align, the different agents...
Provisioning Heterogeneous and Unreliable Providers for Service Workflows (2007)
Stein, Sebastian, Jennings, N. R., Payne, Terry R.
In this paper, we address the problem of provisioning unreliable and heterogeneous service providers for the constituent tasks of abstract workflows. Specifically, we deal with unreliable providers...
An Effective Strategy for the Flexible Provisioning of Service Workflows (2007)
Stein, Sebastian, Payne, Terry R., Jennings, N. R.
Recent advances in service-oriented frameworks and semantic Web technologies have enabled software agents to discover and invoke resources over large distributed systems, in order to meet their...
Formal Specification of OWL-S with Object-Z (2007)
Wang, Hai W., Saleh, Ahmed, Payne, Terry R., Gibbins, Nicholas
Semantic Web Services, one of the most significant research areas within the Semantic Web vision, has been recognized as a promising technology that exhibits huge commercial potential, and attracts a...
Provisioning Heterogeneous and Unreliable Providers for Service Workflows (2007)
Stein, Sebastian, Jennings, N. R., Payne, Terry R.
Service-oriented technologies enable software agents to dynamically discover and provision remote services for their workflows. Current work has typically assumed these services to be reliable and...
An Integrated Formal Approach to Semantic Work Environments Design (2007)
Wang, Hai H., Dong, Jin-Song, Sun, Jing, Payne, Terry R., Gibbins, Nick, Li, Yuan-Fang, ...
An Integrated Formal Approach to Semantic Work Environments Design (2007)
Wang, Hai H., Dong, Jin-Song, Sun, Jing, Payne, Terry R., Gibbins, Nick, Li, Yuan-Fang, ...
Evaluating BluScreen: Usability for Intelligent Pervasive Displays (2007)
Karam, Maria, Payne, Terry R., David, Esther
Within a ubiquitous environment, market-based approaches can be used to select the most appropriate material for a public display, depending on factors such as the audience's preferences and...
Evaluating BluScreen: Usability for Intelligent Pervasive Displays (2007)
Karam, Maria, Payne, Terry R., David, Esther
Within a ubiquitous environment, market-based approaches can be used to select the most appropriate material for a public display, depending on factors such as the audience's preferences and...
An Integral Formal Approach to Semantic Work Environments Design (2007)
Wang, Hai H., Dong, Jin Song, Sun, Jing, Payne, Terry R., Gibbins, Nicholas, Li, Yuan-Fang, ...
An Integral Formal Approach to Semantic Work Environments Design (2007)
Wang, Hai H., Dong, Jin Song, Sun, Jing, Payne, Terry R., Gibbins, Nicholas, Li, Yuan-Fang, ...
Provisioning heterogeneous and unreliable providers for service workflows (2007)
Sebastian Stein, Nicholas R. Jennings, Terry R. Payne
Service-oriented technologies enable software agents to dynamically discover and provision remote services for their workflows. Current work has typically assumed these services to be reliable and...
An effective strategy for the flexible provisioning of service workflows (2007)
Sebastian Stein, Terry R. Payne, Nicholas R. Jennings
Abstract. Recent advances in service-oriented frameworks and semantic Web technologies have enabled software agents to discover and invoke resources over large distributed systems, in order to meet...
An advanced bidding agent for advertisement selection on public displays (2007)
Alex Rogers, Esther David, Terry R. Payne, Nicholas R. Jennings
In this paper we present an advanced bidding agent that participates in first-price sealed bid auctions to allocate advertising space on BluScreen – an experimental public advertisement system that...
Sensitivity Analysis of Flexible Provisioning (2006)
Stein, Sebastian, Payne, Terry R., Jennings, Nicholas R.
This technical report contains a sensitivity analysis to extend our previous work. We show that our flexible service provisioning strategy is robust to inaccurate performance information (when the...
Sensitivity Analysis of Flexible Provisioning (2006)
Stein, Sebastian, Payne, Terry R., Jennings, Nicholas R.
This technical report contains a sensitivity analysis to extend our previous work. We show that our flexible service provisioning strategy is robust to inaccurate performance information (when the...
Sensitivity Analysis of Flexible Provisioning (2006)
Stein, Sebastian, Payne, Terry R., Jennings, Nicholas R.
This technical report contains a sensitivity analysis to extend our previous work. We show that our flexible service provisioning strategy is robust to inaccurate performance information (when the...
Reaching agreement over ontology alignments (2006)
Laera, Loredana, Tamma, Valentina, Euzenat, Jerome, Bench-Capon, Trevor, Payne, Terry R.
When agents communicate, they do not necessarily use the same vocabulary or ontology. For them to interact successfully, they must find correspondences (mappings) between the terms used in their...
Reaching agreement over ontology alignments (2006)
Laera, Loredana, Tamma, Valentina, Euzenat, Jerome, Bench-Capon, Trevor, Payne, Terry R.
When agents communicate, they do not necessarily use the same vocabulary or ontology. For them to interact successfully, they must find correspondences (mappings) between the terms used in their...
Automated Syntactic Medation for Web Service Integration (2006)
Szomszor, Martin, Payne, Terry R, Moreau, Luc
As the Web Services and Grid community adopt Semantic Web technology, we observe a shift towards higher-level workflow composition and service discovery practices. While this provides excellent...
Auction Mechanisms for efficient Advertisment Selection on Public Display (2006)
Payne, Terry R., David, Esther, Jennings, Nicholas R., Sharifi, Matthew
Public electronic displays can be used as an advertising medium when space is a scarce resource, and it is desirable to expose many adverts to as wide an audience as possible. Although the efficiency...
Flexible Provisioning of Service Workflows (2006)
Stein, Sebastian, Jennings, Nicholas R., Payne, Terry R.
Service-oriented computing is a promising paradigm for highly distributed and complex computer systems. In such systems, services are offered by provider agents over a computer network and...
Co-presence Communities: Using pervasive computing to support weak social networks (2006)
Lawrence, Jamie, Payne, Terry R., De Roure, David
Although the strongest social relationships feature most prominently in our lives, we also maintain a multitude of much weaker connections: the distant colleagues that we share a coffee with in the...
Using Electronic Institutions to secure Grid environments (2006)
Ashri, Ronald, Payne, Terry R., Luck, Michael, Surridge, Mike, Sierra, Carles, Aguilar, Juan Antonio Rodriguez, ...
Abstract. As the technical infrastructure to support Grid environments matures, attention must be focused on integrating such technical infrastructure with technologies to support more dynamic access...
Dynamic Discovery of Composable Type Adapters for Practical Web Services Workflow (2006)
Szomszor, Martin, Payne, Terry R, Moreau, Luc
As the Web Services and Grid community adopt Semantic Web technology, we observe a shift towards higher-level workflow composition and service discovery practices. While this provides excellent...
Automated Syntactic Medation for Web Service Integration (2006)
Szomszor, Martin, Payne, Terry R, Moreau, Luc
As the Web Services and Grid community adopt Semantic Web technology, we observe a shift towards higher-level workflow composition and service discovery practices. While this provides excellent...
Semantic Security in Service Oriented Environments (2006)
Surridge, Mike, Payne, Terry R., Taylor, Steve J., Watkins, E. Rowland, Leonard, Thomas, Jacyno, Mariusz, ...
As the technical infrastructure to support Grid environments matures, attention must be focused on integrating such technical infrastructure with technologies to support more dynamic access to...
Reaching agreement over ontology alignments (2006)
Laera, Loredana, Tamma, Valentina, Euzenat, Jerome, Bench-Capon, Trevor, Payne, Terry R.
When agents communicate, they do not necessarily use the same vocabulary or ontology. For them to interact successfully, they must find correspondences (mappings) between the terms used in their...
Flexible Provisioning of Semantic Web Service Workflows using a QoS Ontology (2006)
Stein, Sebastian, Payne, Terry R., Jennings, Nicholas R.
Semantic Web services allow applications to automatically discover and provision distributed services at runtime. However, when such services are offered by autonomous providers, as is common in...
Arguing over ontology alignments (2006)
Laera, Loredana, Tamma, Valentina, Euzenat, Jerome, Bench-Capon, Trevor, Payne, Terry R.
In open and dynamic environments, agents will usually differ in the domain ontologies they commit to and their perception of the world. The availability of Alignment Services that are able to provide...
Commercial Applications of Agents: Lessons, Experiences and Challenges (2006)
Belecheanu, Roxana, Munroe, Steve, Luck, Michael, Payne, Terry R., Miller, Tim, McBurney, Peter, ...
Agents Arguing Over Ontology Alignments (2006)
Laera, Loredana, Tamma, Valentina, Euzenat, Jerome, Bench-Capon, Trevor, Payne, Terry R.
Auction Mechanisms for efficient Advertisment Selection on Public Display (2006)
Payne, Terry R., David, Esther, Jennings, N. R., Sharifi, Matthew
Public electronic displays can be used as an advertising medium when space is a scarce resource, and it is desirable to expose many adverts to as wide an audience as possible. Although the efficiency...
Flexible Provisioning of Service Workflows (2006)
Stein, Sebastian, Jennings, N. R., Payne, Terry R.
Service-oriented computing is a promising paradigm for highly distributed and complex computer systems. In such systems, services are offered by provider agents over a computer network and...
Co-presence Communities: Using pervasive computing to support weak social networks (2006)
Lawrence, Jamie, Payne, Terry R., De Roure, David
Although the strongest social relationships feature most prominently in our lives, we also maintain a multitude of much weaker connections: the distant colleagues that we share a coffee with in the...
Using Electronic Institutions to secure Grid environments (2006)
Ashri, Ronald, Payne, Terry R., Luck, Michael, Surridge, Mike, Sierra, Carles, Aguilar, Juan Antonio Rodriguez, ...
Abstract. As the technical infrastructure to support Grid environments matures, attention must be focused on integrating such technical infrastructure with technologies to support more dynamic access...
Dynamic Discovery of Composable Type Adapters for Practical Web Services Workflow (2006)
Szomszor, Martin, Payne, Terry R, Moreau, Luc
As the Web Services and Grid community adopt Semantic Web technology, we observe a shift towards higher-level workflow composition and service discovery practices. While this provides excellent...
Automated Syntactic Medation for Web Service Integration (2006)
Szomszor, Martin, Payne, Terry R, Moreau, Luc
As the Web Services and Grid community adopt Semantic Web technology, we observe a shift towards higher-level workflow composition and service discovery practices. While this provides excellent...
Semantic Security in Service Oriented Environments (2006)
Surridge, Mike, Payne, Terry R., Taylor, Steve J., Watkins, E. Rowland, Leonard, Thomas, Jacyno, Mariusz, ...
As the technical infrastructure to support Grid environments matures, attention must be focused on integrating such technical infrastructure with technologies to support more dynamic access to...
Flexible Provisioning of Semantic Web Service Workflows using a QoS Ontology (2006)
Stein, Sebastian, Payne, Terry R., Jennings, N. R.
Semantic Web services allow applications to automatically discover and provision distributed services at runtime. However, when such services are offered by autonomous providers, as is common in...
Arguing over ontology alignments (2006)
Laera, Loredana, Tamma, Valentina, Euzenat, Jerome, Bench-Capon, Trevor, Payne, Terry R.
In open and dynamic environments, agents will usually differ in the domain ontologies they commit to and their perception of the world. The availability of Alignment Services that are able to provide...
Commercial Applications of Agents: Lessons, Experiences and Challenges (2006)
Belecheanu, Roxana, Munroe, Steve, Luck, Michael, Payne, Terry R., Miller, Tim, McBurney, Peter, ...
Agents Arguing Over Ontology Alignments (2006)
Laera, Loredana, Tamma, Valentina, Euzenat, Jerome, Bench-Capon, Trevor, Payne, Terry R.
Auction Mechanisms for efficient Advertisment Selection on Public Display (2006)
Payne, Terry R., David, Esther, Jennings, N. R., Sharifi, Matthew
Public electronic displays can be used as an advertising medium when space is a scarce resource, and it is desirable to expose many adverts to as wide an audience as possible. Although the efficiency...
Flexible Provisioning of Service Workflows (2006)
Stein, Sebastian, Jennings, N. R., Payne, Terry R.
Service-oriented computing is a promising paradigm for highly distributed and complex computer systems. In such systems, services are offered by provider agents over a computer network and...
Co-presence Communities: Using pervasive computing to support weak social networks (2006)
Lawrence, Jamie, Payne, Terry R., De Roure, David
Although the strongest social relationships feature most prominently in our lives, we also maintain a multitude of much weaker connections: the distant colleagues that we share a coffee with in the...
Using Electronic Institutions to secure Grid environments (2006)
Ashri, Ronald, Payne, Terry R., Luck, Michael, Surridge, Mike, Sierra, Carles, Aguilar, Juan Antonio Rodriguez, ...
Abstract. As the technical infrastructure to support Grid environments matures, attention must be focused on integrating such technical infrastructure with technologies to support more dynamic access...
Dynamic Discovery of Composable Type Adapters for Practical Web Services Workflow (2006)
Szomszor, Martin, Payne, Terry R, Moreau, Luc
As the Web Services and Grid community adopt Semantic Web technology, we observe a shift towards higher-level workflow composition and service discovery practices. While this provides excellent...
Automated Syntactic Medation for Web Service Integration (2006)
Szomszor, Martin, Payne, Terry R, Moreau, Luc
As the Web Services and Grid community adopt Semantic Web technology, we observe a shift towards higher-level workflow composition and service discovery practices. While this provides excellent...
Semantic Security in Service Oriented Environments (2006)
Surridge, Mike, Payne, Terry R., Taylor, Steve J., Watkins, E. Rowland, Leonard, Thomas, Jacyno, Mariusz, ...
As the technical infrastructure to support Grid environments matures, attention must be focused on integrating such technical infrastructure with technologies to support more dynamic access to...
Flexible Provisioning of Semantic Web Service Workflows using a QoS Ontology (2006)
Stein, Sebastian, Payne, Terry R., Jennings, N. R.
Semantic Web services allow applications to automatically discover and provision distributed services at runtime. However, when such services are offered by autonomous providers, as is common in...
Arguing over ontology alignments (2006)
Laera, Loredana, Tamma, Valentina, Euzenat, Jerome, Bench-Capon, Trevor, Payne, Terry R.
In open and dynamic environments, agents will usually differ in the domain ontologies they commit to and their perception of the world. The availability of Alignment Services that are able to provide...
Commercial Applications of Agents: Lessons, Experiences and Challenges (2006)
Belecheanu, Roxana, Munroe, Steve, Luck, Michael, Payne, Terry R., Miller, Tim, McBurney, Peter, ...
Agents Arguing Over Ontology Alignments (2006)
Laera, Loredana, Tamma, Valentina, Euzenat, Jerome, Bench-Capon, Trevor, Payne, Terry R.
Flexible provisioning of service workflows (2006)
Sebastian Stein, Nicholas R. Jennings, Terry R. Payne
Abstract. Service-oriented computing is a promising paradigm for highly distributed and complex computer systems. In such systems, services are offered by provider agents over a computer network and...
Szomszor, Martin, Payne, Terry R, Moreau, Luc
While the Grid and Web Services have helped us support heterogeneous resource access through the use of service oriented architectures, they have not addressed the issue of heterogeneous data...
Ontologies for Tracking Ubiquitous Interest (2005)
Payne, Terry R., Sharifi, Matt, Belecheanu, Roxana
Within a ubiquitous environment, intelligent displays can select the most appropriate material depending on factors such as the audience's preferences and diversity of interest. In addition, such...
Towards semantic web agents: Knowledge Web and AgentLink (2005)
Payne, Terry R., Tamma, Valentina
This paper presents an overview on the role of agents in the Semantic Web, that was the topic of the AgentLink Technical Forum Group on “Semantic Web Agents”, aimed at fostering closer...
Szomszor, Martin, Payne, Terry R, Moreau, Luc
While the Grid and Web Services have helped us support heterogeneous resource access through the use of service oriented architectures, they have not addressed the issue of heterogeneous data...
Ontologies for Tracking Ubiquitous Interest (2005)
Payne, Terry R., Sharifi, Matt, Belecheanu, Roxana
Within a ubiquitous environment, intelligent displays can select the most appropriate material depending on factors such as the audience's preferences and diversity of interest. In addition, such...
Towards semantic web agents: Knowledge Web and AgentLink (2005)
Payne, Terry R., Tamma, Valentina
This paper presents an overview on the role of agents in the Semantic Web, that was the topic of the AgentLink Technical Forum Group on “Semantic Web Agents”, aimed at fostering closer...
Szomszor, Martin, Payne, Terry R, Moreau, Luc
While the Grid and Web Services have helped us support heterogeneous resource access through the use of service oriented architectures, they have not addressed the issue of heterogeneous data...
Ontologies for Tracking Ubiquitous Interest (2005)
Payne, Terry R., Sharifi, Matt, Belecheanu, Roxana
Within a ubiquitous environment, intelligent displays can select the most appropriate material depending on factors such as the audience's preferences and diversity of interest. In addition, such...
Towards semantic web agents: Knowledge Web and AgentLink (2005)
Payne, Terry R., Tamma, Valentina
This paper presents an overview on the role of agents in the Semantic Web, that was the topic of the AgentLink Technical Forum Group on “Semantic Web Agents”, aimed at fostering closer...
Martin Szomszor, Terry R. Payne, Luc Moreau
While the Grid and Web Services have helped us support heterogeneous resource access through the use of service oriented architectures, they have not addressed the issue of heterogeneous data...
Martin Szomszor, Terry R. Payne, Luc Moreau
While the Grid and Web Services have helped us support heterogeneous resource access through the use of service oriented architectures, they have not addressed the issue of heterogeneous data...
OWL-S: Semantic Markup for Web Services (2004)
Martin, David, Burstein, Mark, Hobbs, Jerry, Lassila, Ora, McDermott, Drew, McIlraith, Sheila, ...
OWL-S: Semantic Markup for Web Services (2004)
Martin, David, Burstein, Mark, Hobbs, Jerry, Lassila, Ora, McDermott, Drew, McIlraith, Sheila, ...
OWL-S: Semantic Markup for Web Services (2004)
Martin, David, Burstein, Mark, Hobbs, Jerry, Lassila, Ora, McDermott, Drew, McIlraith, Sheila, ...
Making tea: a human centred approach to designing a pervasive smart lab notebook (2004)
Frey, Jeremy, Hughes, Gareth V., Mills, Hugo R., Payne, Terry R., Schraefel, Monica M.c., Smith, Graham M.
The methodology used to design a useful and workable laboratory electronic notebook is described along with some of the technology needed to implement the smart lab systems.
Approaches to Semantic Web Services: An Overview and Comparison (2004)
Cabral, Liliana, Domingue, John, Motta, Enrico, Payne, Terry R., Hakimpour, Farshad
Abstract. The next Web generation promises to deliver Semantic Web Services (SWS); services that are self-described and amenable to automated discovery, composition and invocation. A prerequisite to...
An Ontological Framework for Semantic Description of Devices (2004)
Bandara, Ayomi, Payne, Terry R., De Roure, David, Clemo, Gary
Bringing Semantics to Web Services: The OWL-S Approach (2004)
Martin, David, Paolucci, Massimo, McIlraith, Sheila, Burnstein, Mark, McDermott, Drew, McGuinness, Deborah, ...
Service interface description languages such as WSDL, and related standards, are evolving rapidly to provide a foundation for interoperation between Web services. At the same time, Semantic Web...
The Synergy of Electronic Commerce, Agents, and Semantic Web Services (2004)
Blake, M. Brian, Parsons, Simon, Payne, Terry R.
Advancements in software agents and Semantic Web service technologies are generally enhancing the landscape of electronic commerce. Semantic Web service technologies promise the standardisation and...
Approaches to Semantic Web Services: An Overview and Comparison (2004)
Cabral, Liliana, Domingue, John, Motta, Enrico, Payne, Terry R., Hakimpour, Farshad
Abstract. The next Web generation promises to deliver Semantic Web Services (SWS); services that are self-described and amenable to automated discovery, composition and invocation. A prerequisite to...
An Ontological Framework for Semantic Description of Devices (2004)
Bandara, Ayomi, Payne, Terry R., De Roure, David, Clemo, Gary
Bringing Semantics to Web Services: The OWL-S Approach (2004)
Martin, David, Paolucci, Massimo, McIlraith, Sheila, Burnstein, Mark, McDermott, Drew, McGuinness, Deborah, ...
Service interface description languages such as WSDL, and related standards, are evolving rapidly to provide a foundation for interoperation between Web services. At the same time, Semantic Web...
The Synergy of Electronic Commerce, Agents, and Semantic Web Services (2004)
Blake, M. Brian, Parsons, Simon, Payne, Terry R.
Advancements in software agents and Semantic Web service technologies are generally enhancing the landscape of electronic commerce. Semantic Web service technologies promise the standardisation and...
Approaches to Semantic Web Services: An Overview and Comparison (2004)
Cabral, Liliana, Domingue, John, Motta, Enrico, Payne, Terry R., Hakimpour, Farshad
Abstract. The next Web generation promises to deliver Semantic Web Services (SWS); services that are self-described and amenable to automated discovery, composition and invocation. A prerequisite to...
An Ontological Framework for Semantic Description of Devices (2004)
Bandara, Ayomi, Payne, Terry R., De Roure, David, Clemo, Gary
Bringing Semantics to Web Services: The OWL-S Approach (2004)
Martin, David, Paolucci, Massimo, McIlraith, Sheila, Burnstein, Mark, McDermott, Drew, McGuinness, Deborah, ...
Service interface description languages such as WSDL, and related standards, are evolving rapidly to provide a foundation for interoperation between Web services. At the same time, Semantic Web...
The Synergy of Electronic Commerce, Agents, and Semantic Web Services (2004)
Blake, M. Brian, Parsons, Simon, Payne, Terry R.
Advancements in software agents and Semantic Web service technologies are generally enhancing the landscape of electronic commerce. Semantic Web service technologies promise the standardisation and...
Automated Negotiation Between Publishers and Consumers of Grid Notifications (2003)
Lawley, Richard, Luck, Michael, Decker, Keith, Payne, Terry R., Moreau, Luc
In many cases, however, there is a mismatch between the dissemination of these updates and the delivery preferences of the consumer, often in terms of frequency of delivery, quality, etc. In this...
Automated Negotiation Between Publishers and Consumers of Grid Notifications (2003)
Lawley, Richard, Luck, Michael, Decker, Keith, Payne, Terry R., Moreau, Luc
In many cases, however, there is a mismatch between the dissemination of these updates and the delivery preferences of the consumer, often in terms of frequency of delivery, quality, etc. In this...
Automated Negotiation Between Publishers and Consumers of Grid Notifications (2003)
Lawley, Richard, Luck, Michael, Decker, Keith, Payne, Terry R., Moreau, Luc
In many cases, however, there is a mismatch between the dissemination of these updates and the delivery preferences of the consumer, often in terms of frequency of delivery, quality, etc. In this...
Context Slicing the Chemical Aether (2003)
Frey, Jeremy G., De Roure, David, Schraefel, M.c., Mills, Hugo, Fu, Hongchen, Peppe, Sam, ...
In this paper we discuss the information system requirements of an e-Science scenario, drawn from chemistry research, and describe our approach to a solution which employs notions of adaptive (and...
Context Slicing the Chemical Aether (2003)
Frey, Jeremy G., De Roure, David, Schraefel, M.c., Mills, Hugo, Fu, Hongchen, Peppe, Sam, ...
In this paper we discuss the information system requirements of an e-Science scenario, drawn from chemistry research, and describe our approach to a solution which employs notions of adaptive (and...
Context Slicing the Chemical Aether (2003)
Frey, Jeremy G., De Roure, David, Schraefel, M.c., Mills, Hugo, Fu, Hongchen, Peppe, Sam, ...
In this paper we discuss the information system requirements of an e-Science scenario, drawn from chemistry research, and describe our approach to a solution which employs notions of adaptive (and...
Publishing Semantic Descriptions of Services (2003)
Moreau, Luc, Miles, Simon, Papay, Juri, Decker, Keith, Payne, Terry R.
Service discovery in large scale, open distributed systems is difficult because of the need to filter out services suitable to the task at hand from a potentially huge pool of possibilities. Semantic...
Publishing Semantic Descriptions of Services (2003)
Moreau, Luc, Miles, Simon, Papay, Juri, Decker, Keith, Payne, Terry R.
Service discovery in large scale, open distributed systems is difficult because of the need to filter out services suitable to the task at hand from a potentially huge pool of possibilities. Semantic...
DAML-S: Semantic Markup ForWeb Services (2002)
Ankolekar, Anupriya, Burstein, Mark, Hobbs, Jerry, Lassila, Ora, Martin, David L., McIlraith, Sheila A., ...
The SemanticWeb should enable greater access not only to content but also to services on the Web. Users and software agents should be able to discover, invoke, compose, and monitor Web resources...
RCal: A Case Study on Semantic Web Agents (2002)
Payne, Terry R., Singh, Rahul, Sycara, Katia
The Semantic Web promises to change the way agents navigate, harvest and utilize information on the internet. By providing a structured, distributed representation for expressing concepts and...
Facilitating Message Exchange though Middle Agents (2002)
Payne, Terry R., Paolucci, Massimo, Singh, Rahul, Sycara, Katia
To utilize services provided by other agents, a requesting agent needs to locate and communicate with these service providers. Specifically, in order to interoperate with the providers, the...
Browsing Schedules - An Agent-based approach to navigating the Semantic Web. (2002)
Payne, Terry R., Singh, Rahul, Sycara, Katia
The Semantic Web promises to change the way agents navigate, harvest and utilize information on the internet. By providing a structured, distributed representation for expressing concepts and...
DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web (2002)
Ankolekar, Anupriya, Burstein, Mark, Hobbs, Jerry R., Lassila, Ora, Martin, David L., McDermott, Drew, ...
In this paper we present DAML-S, a DAML+OIL ontology for describing the properties and capabilities of Web Services. Web Services -- Web-accessible programs and devices -- are garnering a great deal...
Semantic Matching of Web Services Capabilities (2002)
Paolucci, Massimo, Kawamura, Takahiro, Payne, Terry R., Sycara, Katia
The Web is moving from being a collection of pages toward a collection of services that interoperate through the Internet. The first step towards this interoperation is the location of other services...
RCal: A Case Study on Semantic Web Agents (2002)
Payne, Terry R., Singh, Rahul, Sycara, Katia
The Semantic Web promises to change the way agents navigate, harvest and utilize information on the internet. By providing a structured, distributed representation for expressing concepts and...
Facilitating Message Exchange though Middle Agents (2002)
Payne, Terry R., Paolucci, Massimo, Singh, Rahul, Sycara, Katia
To utilize services provided by other agents, a requesting agent needs to locate and communicate with these service providers. Specifically, in order to interoperate with the providers, the...
Browsing Schedules - An Agent-based approach to navigating the Semantic Web. (2002)
Payne, Terry R., Singh, Rahul, Sycara, Katia
The Semantic Web promises to change the way agents navigate, harvest and utilize information on the internet. By providing a structured, distributed representation for expressing concepts and...
DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web (2002)
Ankolekar, Anupriya, Burstein, Mark, Hobbs, Jerry R., Lassila, Ora, Martin, David L., McDermott, Drew, ...
In this paper we present DAML-S, a DAML+OIL ontology for describing the properties and capabilities of Web Services. Web Services -- Web-accessible programs and devices -- are garnering a great deal...
Semantic Matching of Web Services Capabilities (2002)
Paolucci, Massimo, Kawamura, Takahiro, Payne, Terry R., Sycara, Katia
The Web is moving from being a collection of pages toward a collection of services that interoperate through the Internet. The first step towards this interoperation is the location of other services...
RCal: A Case Study on Semantic Web Agents (2002)
Payne, Terry R., Singh, Rahul, Sycara, Katia
The Semantic Web promises to change the way agents navigate, harvest and utilize information on the internet. By providing a structured, distributed representation for expressing concepts and...
Facilitating Message Exchange though Middle Agents (2002)
Payne, Terry R., Paolucci, Massimo, Singh, Rahul, Sycara, Katia
To utilize services provided by other agents, a requesting agent needs to locate and communicate with these service providers. Specifically, in order to interoperate with the providers, the...
Browsing Schedules - An Agent-based approach to navigating the Semantic Web. (2002)
Payne, Terry R., Singh, Rahul, Sycara, Katia
The Semantic Web promises to change the way agents navigate, harvest and utilize information on the internet. By providing a structured, distributed representation for expressing concepts and...
DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web (2002)
Ankolekar, Anupriya, Burstein, Mark, Hobbs, Jerry R., Lassila, Ora, Martin, David L., McDermott, Drew, ...
In this paper we present DAML-S, a DAML+OIL ontology for describing the properties and capabilities of Web Services. Web Services -- Web-accessible programs and devices -- are garnering a great deal...
Semantic Matching of Web Services Capabilities (2002)
Paolucci, Massimo, Kawamura, Takahiro, Payne, Terry R., Sycara, Katia
The Web is moving from being a collection of pages toward a collection of services that interoperate through the Internet. The first step towards this interoperation is the location of other services...
Importing the Semantic Web in UDDI (2002)
Massimo Paolucci, Takahiro Kawamura, Terry R. Payne, Katia Sycara
Abstract. The web is moving from being a collection of pages toward a collection of services that interoperate through the Internet. A fundamental step toward this interoperation is the ability of...
Semantic matching of web services capabilities (2002)
Massimo Paolucci, Takahiro Kawamura, Terry R. Payne, Katia Sycara
Abstract. The Web is moving from being a collection of pages toward a collection of services that interoperate through the Internet. The first step toward this interoperation is the location of other...
Semantic matching of web services capabilities (2002)
Massimo Paolucci, Takahiro Kawamura, Terry R. Payne, Katia Sycara
Abstract. The Web is moving from being a collection of pages toward a collection of services that interoperate through the Internet. The first step toward this interoperation is the location of other...
Importing the Semantic Web in UDDI (2002)
Massimo Paolucci, Takahiro Kawamura, Terry R. Payne, Katia Sycara I
Abstract. The web is moving from being a collection of pages toward a collection of services that interoperate through the Internet. A fundamental step toward this interoperation is the ability of...
Processing Schedules Using Distributed Ontologies on the Semantic (2002)
Terry R. Payne, Rahul Singh, Katia Sycara
Abstract. The Semantic Web uses formal distributed ontologies for representing relationships among concepts in the real world. A structured framework such as this allows agents to peruse and reason...
Browsing schedules - an agent-based approach to navigating the semantic web (2002)
Terry R. Payne, Rahul Singh, Katia Sycara
Abstract. The Semantic Web promises to change the way agents navigate, harvest and utilize information on the internet. By providing a structured, distributed representation for expressing concepts...
Browsing schedules - an agent-based approach to navigating the semantic web (2002)
Terry R. Payne, Rahul Singh, Katia Sycara
Abstract. The Semantic Web promises to change the way agents navigate, harvest and utilize information on the internet. By providing a structured, distributed representation for expressing concepts...
Semantic matching of web services capabilities (2002)
Massimo Paolucci, Takahiro Kawamura, Terry R. Payne, Katia Sycara
Abstract. The Web is moving from being a collection of pages toward a collection of services that interoperate through the Internet. The rst step toward this interoperation is the location of other...
Importing the Semantic Web in UDDI (2002)
Massimo Paolucci, Takahiro Kawamura, Terry R. Payne, Katia Sycara
Abstract. The web is moving from being a collection of pages toward a collection of services that interoperate through the Internet. A fundamental step toward this interoperation is the ability of...
DAML-S: A Semantic Markup Language For Web Services (2001)
Ankolenkar, Anupriya, Burstein, Mark, Hobbs, Jerry, Lassila, Ora, Martin, David, McIlraith, Sheila, ...
DAML-S: A Semantic Markup Language For Web Services (2001)
Ankolenkar, Anupriya, Burstein, Mark, Hobbs, Jerry, Lassila, Ora, Martin, David, McIlraith, Sheila, ...
DAML-S: A Semantic Markup Language For Web Services (2001)
Ankolenkar, Anupriya, Burstein, Mark, Hobbs, Jerry, Lassila, Ora, Martin, David, McIlraith, Sheila, ...
Communicating Agents in Open Multi Agent Systems (2001)
Terry R. Payne, Massimo Paolucci, Rahul Singh, Katia Sycara
Abstract. Agents often utilise the services of other agents to perform tasks within multi agent systems. To achieve this, an agent must fh'st locate another agent that has the capability to...
Agent-based aiding for individual and team planning tasks (2000)
Lenox, Terri L., Payne, Terry R., Hahn, Susan, Lewis, Michael, Sycara, Katia
Intelligent aiding strategies were evaluated for a team planning task. The MokSAF interface agent links an Artificial Intelligence (AI) route planning agent to a Geographic Information System (GIS)....
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Planning and Scheduling Multiple Goals (2000)
Arai, Sachiyo, Sycara, Katia, Payne, Terry R.
Recently, reinforcement learning has been proposed as an effective method for knowledge acquisition of the multiagent systems. However, most researches on multiagent system applying a reinforcement...
Varying the User Interaction within Multi-Agent Systems (2000)
Payne, Terry R., Sycara, Katia, Lewis, Michael, Lenox, Terri L., Hahn, Susan
Agent-Based Support for Human/Agent Teams (2000)
Payne, Terry R., Lenox, Terri L., Hahn, Susan, Sycara, Katia, Lewis, Michael
In this paper, we present an interface agent, MokSAF, which facilitates time-critical team-planning tasks for teams of both humans and heterogeneous software agents. This agent assists in the...
Agent-Based Team Aiding in a Time Critical Task (2000)
Payne, Terry R., Lenox, Terri L., Hahn, Susan, Lewis, Michael, Sycara, Katia
In this paper we evaluate the effectiveness of agent-based aiding in support of a time-critical team-planning task for teams of both humans and heterogeneous software agents. The team task consists...
FALCON: Feedback Adaptive Loop for Content-Based Retrieval (2000)
Wu, Leejay, Faloutsos, Christos, Sycara, Katia, Payne, Terry R.
Several methods currently exist that can perform relatively simple queries driven by relevance feedback on large multimedia databases. However, all these methods work only for vector spaces; that is,...
Experience-based Reinforcement Learning to Acquire Effective Behavior in a Multiagent Domain (2000)
Arai, Sachiyo, Sycara, Katia, Payne, Terry R.
Abstract. In this paper, we discuss Profit-sharing, an experience-based reinforcement learning approach (which is similar to a Monte-Carlo based reinforcement learning method) that can be used to...
Agent-based aiding for individual and team planning tasks (2000)
Lenox, Terri L., Payne, Terry R., Hahn, Susan, Lewis, Michael, Sycara, Katia
Intelligent aiding strategies were evaluated for a team planning task. The MokSAF interface agent links an Artificial Intelligence (AI) route planning agent to a Geographic Information System (GIS)....
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Planning and Scheduling Multiple Goals (2000)
Arai, Sachiyo, Sycara, Katia, Payne, Terry R.
Recently, reinforcement learning has been proposed as an effective method for knowledge acquisition of the multiagent systems. However, most researches on multiagent system applying a reinforcement...
Varying the User Interaction within Multi-Agent Systems (2000)
Payne, Terry R., Sycara, Katia, Lewis, Michael, Lenox, Terri L., Hahn, Susan
Agent-Based Support for Human/Agent Teams (2000)
Payne, Terry R., Lenox, Terri L., Hahn, Susan, Sycara, Katia, Lewis, Michael
In this paper, we present an interface agent, MokSAF, which facilitates time-critical team-planning tasks for teams of both humans and heterogeneous software agents. This agent assists in the...
Agent-Based Team Aiding in a Time Critical Task (2000)
Payne, Terry R., Lenox, Terri L., Hahn, Susan, Lewis, Michael, Sycara, Katia
In this paper we evaluate the effectiveness of agent-based aiding in support of a time-critical team-planning task for teams of both humans and heterogeneous software agents. The team task consists...
FALCON: Feedback Adaptive Loop for Content-Based Retrieval (2000)
Wu, Leejay, Faloutsos, Christos, Sycara, Katia, Payne, Terry R.
Several methods currently exist that can perform relatively simple queries driven by relevance feedback on large multimedia databases. However, all these methods work only for vector spaces; that is,...
Experience-based Reinforcement Learning to Acquire Effective Behavior in a Multiagent Domain (2000)
Arai, Sachiyo, Sycara, Katia, Payne, Terry R.
Abstract. In this paper, we discuss Profit-sharing, an experience-based reinforcement learning approach (which is similar to a Monte-Carlo based reinforcement learning method) that can be used to...
Agent-based aiding for individual and team planning tasks (2000)
Lenox, Terri L., Payne, Terry R., Hahn, Susan, Lewis, Michael, Sycara, Katia
Intelligent aiding strategies were evaluated for a team planning task. The MokSAF interface agent links an Artificial Intelligence (AI) route planning agent to a Geographic Information System (GIS)....
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Planning and Scheduling Multiple Goals (2000)
Arai, Sachiyo, Sycara, Katia, Payne, Terry R.
Recently, reinforcement learning has been proposed as an effective method for knowledge acquisition of the multiagent systems. However, most researches on multiagent system applying a reinforcement...
Varying the User Interaction within Multi-Agent Systems (2000)
Payne, Terry R., Sycara, Katia, Lewis, Michael, Lenox, Terri L., Hahn, Susan
Agent-Based Support for Human/Agent Teams (2000)
Payne, Terry R., Lenox, Terri L., Hahn, Susan, Sycara, Katia, Lewis, Michael
In this paper, we present an interface agent, MokSAF, which facilitates time-critical team-planning tasks for teams of both humans and heterogeneous software agents. This agent assists in the...
Agent-Based Team Aiding in a Time Critical Task (2000)
Payne, Terry R., Lenox, Terri L., Hahn, Susan, Lewis, Michael, Sycara, Katia
In this paper we evaluate the effectiveness of agent-based aiding in support of a time-critical team-planning task for teams of both humans and heterogeneous software agents. The team task consists...
FALCON: Feedback Adaptive Loop for Content-Based Retrieval (2000)
Wu, Leejay, Faloutsos, Christos, Sycara, Katia, Payne, Terry R.
Several methods currently exist that can perform relatively simple queries driven by relevance feedback on large multimedia databases. However, all these methods work only for vector spaces; that is,...
Multi-agent Reinforcement learning for Planning and Scheduling Multiple Goals (2000)
Arai, Sachiyo, Sycara, Katia, Payne, Terry R.
Recently, reinforcement learning has been proposed as an effective method for knowledge acquisition of the multiagent systems. However, most researches on multiagent system applying a reinforcement...
Experience-based Reinforcement Learning to Acquire Effective Behavior in a Multi-agent Domain (2000)
Arai, Sachiyo, Sycara, Katia, Payne, Terry R.
In this paper, we discuss Profit-sharing, an experience-based reinforcement learning approach (which is similar to a Monte-Carlo based reinforcement learning method) that can be used to learn robust...
Dimensionality Reduction through Sub-Space Mapping for Nearest Neighbour Algorithms (2000)
Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter
Many learning algorithms make an implicit assumption that all the attributes present in the data are relevant to a learning task. However, several studies have demonstrated that this assumption...
Varying the User Interaction within Multi-Agent Systems (2000)
Payne, Terry R., Sycara, Katia, Lewis, Michael, Lenox, Terri L., Hahn, Susan
Agents within an open multi-agent system are located through their advertisements with middle agents. Such advertisements describe the agent's capability, ontology, query or task specification, and...
Multi-agent Reinforcement learning for Planning and Scheduling Multiple Goals (2000)
Arai, Sachiyo, Sycara, Katia, Payne, Terry R.
Recently, reinforcement learning has been proposed as an effective method for knowledge acquisition of the multiagent systems. However, most researches on multiagent system applying a reinforcement...
Experience-based Reinforcement Learning to Acquire Effective Behavior in a Multi-agent Domain (2000)
Arai, Sachiyo, Sycara, Katia, Payne, Terry R.
In this paper, we discuss Profit-sharing, an experience-based reinforcement learning approach (which is similar to a Monte-Carlo based reinforcement learning method) that can be used to learn robust...
Dimensionality Reduction through Sub-Space Mapping for Nearest Neighbour Algorithms (2000)
Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter
Many learning algorithms make an implicit assumption that all the attributes present in the data are relevant to a learning task. However, several studies have demonstrated that this assumption...
Varying the User Interaction within Multi-Agent Systems (2000)
Payne, Terry R., Sycara, Katia, Lewis, Michael, Lenox, Terri L., Hahn, Susan
Agents within an open multi-agent system are located through their advertisements with middle agents. Such advertisements describe the agent's capability, ontology, query or task specification, and...
Varying the User Interaction within Multi-Agent Systems (2000)
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FALCON: Feedback Adaptive Loop for Content-Based Retrieval (2000)
Leejay Wu Christos, Christos Faloutsos, Katia Sycara, Terry R. Payne
Several methods currently exist that can perform relatively simple queries driven by relevance feedback on large multimedia databases. However, all these methods work only for vector spaces; that is,...
Agent-Based Support for Human/Agent Teams (2000)
Terry R. Payne, Terri L. Lenox, Susan Hahn, Katia Sycara, Michael Lewis
In this paper, we present an interface agent, MokSAF, which facilitates time-critical team-planning tasks for teams of both humans and heterogeneous software agents. This agent assists in the...
Varying the User Interaction within Multi-Agent Systems (2000)
Terry R. Payne, Katia Sycara, Michael Lewis, Terri L. Lenox, Susan Hahn
Agents within an open multi-agent system are located through their advertisements with middle agents. Such advertisements describe the agent's capability, ontology, query or task specication,...
Agent-Based Team Aiding in a Time Critical Task (2000)
Terry R. Payne, Terri L. Lenox, Susan Hahn, Michael Lewis, Katia Sycara
In this paper we evaluate the effectiveness of agent-based aiding in support of a time-critical team-planning task for teams of both humans and heterogeneous software agents. The team task consists...
Agent-Based Support for Human/Agent Teams (2000)
Terry R. Payne, Terri L. Lenox, Susan Hahn, Katia Sycara, Michael Lewis
In this paper, we present an interface agent, MokSAF, which facilitates time-critical team-planning tasks for teams of both humans and heterogeneous software agents. This agent assists in the...
Multi-agent Reinforcement learning for Planning and Scheduling Multiple Goals (2000)
Sachiyo Arai Katia, Katia Sycara, Terry R. Payne
This paper uses an extended Pursuit Game where there exist multiple preys and multiple hunters as shown in Figure1(a). Each hunter is assumed to be a learning agent, whereas the prey does not learn...
Agent-Based Team Aiding in a Time Critical Task (2000)
Terry R. Payne, Terri L. Lenox, Susan Hahn, Michael Lewis, Katia Sycara
In this paper we evaluate the effectiveness of agent-based aiding in support of a time-critical team-planning task for teams of both humans and heterogeneous software agents. The team task consists...
Agent-Based Support for Human/Agent Teams (2000)
Terry R. Payne, Terri L. Lenox, Susan Hahn, Katia Sycara, Michael Lewis
In this paper, we present an interface agent, MokSAF, which facilitates time-critical team-planning tasks for teams of both humans and heterogeneous software agents. This agent assists in the...
Varying the User Interaction within Multi-Agent Systems (2000)
Terry R. Payne, Katia Sycara, Michael Lewis, Terri L. Lenox, Susan Hahn
Agents within an open multi-agent system are located through their advertisements with middle agents. Such advertisements describe the agent's capability, ontology, query or task specification,...
MokSAF: How should we support teamwork in human-agent teams? (1999)
Lenox, Terri L., Payne, Terry R., Hahn, Susan, Lewis, Michael, Sycara, Katia
In this paper, we describe an interface agent, two different route planning agents and a pilot study which examined whether these agents could support a team planning task. The MokSAF interface agent...
Dimensionality Reduction through Correspondence Analysis (1999)
Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter
Many learning algorithms make an implicit assumption that all the attributes of the presented data are relevant to a learning task. However, several studies on attribute selection have demonstrated...
MokSAF: How should we support teamwork in human-agent teams? (1999)
Lenox, Terri L., Payne, Terry R., Hahn, Susan, Lewis, Michael, Sycara, Katia
In this paper, we describe an interface agent, two different route planning agents and a pilot study which examined whether these agents could support a team planning task. The MokSAF interface agent...
Dimensionality Reduction through Correspondence Analysis (1999)
Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter
Many learning algorithms make an implicit assumption that all the attributes of the presented data are relevant to a learning task. However, several studies on attribute selection have demonstrated...
MokSAF: How should we support teamwork in human-agent teams? (1999)
Lenox, Terri L., Payne, Terry R., Hahn, Susan, Lewis, Michael, Sycara, Katia
In this paper, we describe an interface agent, two different route planning agents and a pilot study which examined whether these agents could support a team planning task. The MokSAF interface agent...
Dimensionality Reduction through Correspondence Analysis (1999)
Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter
Many learning algorithms make an implicit assumption that all the attributes of the presented data are relevant to a learning task. However, several studies on attribute selection have demonstrated...
Dimensionality Reduction through Correspondence Analysis (1999)
Many learning algorithms make an implicit assumption that all the attributes of the presented data are relevant to a learning task. However, several studies on attribute selection have demonstrated...
FALCON: Feedback Adaptive Loop for Content-Based Retrieval (1998)
Wu, Leejay, Faloutsos, Christos, Sycara, Katia, Payne, Terry R.
Several methods currently exist that can perform relatively simple queries driven by relevance feedback on large multimedia, databases. However, all these methods work only for vector spaces; that...
Implicit Feature Selection with the Value Difference Metric (1998)
Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter
The nearest neighbour paradigm provides an effective approach to supervised learning. However, it is especially susceptible to the presence of irrelevant attributes. Whilst many approaches have been...
Implicit Feature Selection with the Value Difference Metric (1998)
Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter
The nearest neighbour paradigm provides an effective approach to supervised learning. However, it is especially susceptible to the presence of irrelevant attributes. Whilst many approaches have been...
Implicit Feature Selection with the Value Difference Metric (1998)
Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter
The nearest neighbour paradigm provides an effective approach to supervised learning. However, it is especially susceptible to the presence of irrelevant attributes. Whilst many approaches have been...
Implicit Feature Selection with the Value Difference Metric (1998)
. The nearest neighbour paradigm provides an effective approach to supervised learning. However, it is especially susceptible to the presence of irrelevant attributes. Whilst many approaches have...
Interface Agents that Learn: An investigation of Learning Issues in a Mail Agent Interface (1997)
Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter
In recent years, interface agents have been developed to assist users with various tasks. Some systems employ machine learning techniques to allow the agent to adapt to the user's changing...
Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter, Green, Claire L.
Interface Agents are being developed to assist users with a variety of tasks. To perform effectively, such agents need knowledge of user preferences. An agent architecture has been developed which...
Interface Agents that Learn: An investigation of Learning Issues in a Mail Agent Interface (1997)
Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter
In recent years, interface agents have been developed to assist users with various tasks. Some systems employ machine learning techniques to allow the agent to adapt to the user's changing...
Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter, Green, Claire L.
Interface Agents are being developed to assist users with a variety of tasks. To perform effectively, such agents need knowledge of user preferences. An agent architecture has been developed which...
Interface Agents that Learn: An investigation of Learning Issues in a Mail Agent Interface (1997)
Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter
In recent years, interface agents have been developed to assist users with various tasks. Some systems employ machine learning techniques to allow the agent to adapt to the user's changing...
Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter, Green, Claire L.
Interface Agents are being developed to assist users with a variety of tasks. To perform effectively, such agents need knowledge of user preferences. An agent architecture has been developed which...
Experience with Learning Agents which Manage Internet-Based Information (1996)
Edwards, Peter, Bayer, David, Green, Claire L., Payne, Terry R.
Experience with Learning Agents which Manage Internet-Based Information (1996)
Edwards, Peter, Bayer, David, Green, Claire L., Payne, Terry R.
Experience with Learning Agents which Manage Internet-Based Information (1996)
Edwards, Peter, Bayer, David, Green, Claire L., Payne, Terry R.
Experience with Learning Agents which Manage Internet-Based Information (1996)
Peter Edwards, David Bayer, Claire L. Green, Terry R. Payne
To provide assistance with tasks such as retrieving USENET news articles or identifying interesting Web pages, an intelligent agent requires information about a user's interests and needs....
Dimensionality Reduction for Agent-Based Learning (1996)
Terms or Journal Scope to attributes present a number of problems. This is due to the size of the domain of the attributes (for text, the domain may contain in the order of 20, 000 - 100, 000...
Experience with learning agents which manage Internet-based information (1996)
Peter Edwards, David Bayer, Claire L. Green, Terry R. Payne
To provide assistance with tasks such as retrieving USENET news articles or identifying interesting Web pages, an intelligent agent requires information about a user's interests and needs....
Learning Mechanisms for Information Filtering Agents (1995)
Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter
In recent years, software agents have been developed which assist users with tasks such as information filtering or information retrieval. Such systems have evolved from simple agents that refer to a...
Learning Mechanisms for Information Filtering Agents (1995)
Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter
In recent years, software agents have been developed which assist users with tasks such as information filtering or information retrieval. Such systems have evolved from simple agents that refer to a...
Learning Mechanisms for Information Filtering Agents (1995)
Payne, Terry R., Edwards, Peter
In recent years, software agents have been developed which assist users with tasks such as information filtering or information retrieval. Such systems have evolved from simple agents that refer to a...
Learning Mechanisms for Information Filtering Agents (1995)
In recent years, software agents have been developed which assist users with tasks such as information filtering or information retrieval. Such systems have evolved from simple agents that refer to a...
Interface Agents that Learn: An Investigation of Learning Issues in a Mail Agent Interface (1995)
In recent years, interface agents have been developed to assist users with various tasks. Some systems employ machine learning techniques to allow the agent to adapt to the user's changing...
Learning Mechanisms for Information Filtering Agents (1995)
In recent years, software agents have been developed which assist users with tasks such as information filtering or information retrieval. Such systems have evolved from simple agents that refer to a...
Terry R. Payne, Peter Edwards, Claire L. Green
Abstract—Interface agents are being developed to assist users with a variety of tasks. To perform effectively, such agents need knowledge of user preferences. An agent architecture has been...