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Jan Treur
Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)
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A Multi-agent Architecture for an Intelligent Website in Insurance
In this paper a multi-agent architecture for intelligent Websites is presented and applied in insurance. The architecture has been designed and implemented using the compositional development method for multi-...
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Design of Collaborative Information Agents
Effective development of nontrivial systems of collaborative information agents requires that an in-depth analysis is made resulting in (1) specification of requirements at different levels of the system, (2) ...
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Modeling User Preferences and Mediating Agents in Electronic Commerce
An important ingredient in agent-mediated Electronic Commerce is the presence of intelligent mediating agents that assist Electronic Commerce participants (e.g., individual users, other agents, organisations)....
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Organisational Change: Deliberation and Modification
For an information-agent-based system to support virtual (Internet-supported) organisations, changes in environmental conditions often demand changes in organisational behaviour, i.e., organisational changes. ...
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Temporal and Spatial Analysis to Personalise an Agent’s Dynamic Belief, Desire, and Intention Profiles
The paper addresses the dynamic belief, desire and intention profiles that can be made of an agent following a particular route, for example through a city. It assumes that location of an agent has effects on ...
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Relating Structure and Dynamics in Organisation Models
To understand how an organisational structure relates to dynamics is an interesting fundamental challenge in the area of social modelling. Specifications of organisational structure usually have a diagrammatic...
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Human Experiments in Trust Dynamics
In the literature, the validity of theories or models for trust is usually based on intuition and common sense. Theories and models are not often verified experimentally. The research reported here contributes...
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LEADSTO: A Language and Environment for Analysis of Dynamics by SimulaTiOn
This paper presents the language and software environment LEADSTO that has been developed to model and simulate dynamic processes in terms of both qualitative and quantitative concepts. The LEADSTO language is...
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A Specification Language for Organisational Performance Indicators
A specification language for performance indicators and their relations and requirements is presented and illustrated for a case study in logistics. The language can be used in different forms, varying from in...
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A Meta-level Architecture for Strategic Reasoning in Naval Planning
The management of naval organizations aims at the maximization of mission success by means of monitoring, planning, and strategic reasoning. This paper presents a meta-level architecture for strategic reasonin...
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Formal Analysis of Meeting Protocols
Organizations depend on regular meetings to carry out their everyday tasks. When carried out successfully, meetings offer a common medium for participants to exchange ideas and make decisions. However, many me...
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Simulation and Analysis of Shared Extended Mind
Some types of animals exploit patterns created in the environment as external mental states, thus obtaining an extension of their mind. In the case of social animals the creation and exploitation of such patte...
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An Agent-Based Meta-level Architecture for Strategic Reasoning in Naval Planning
The management of naval organizations aims at the maximization of mission success by means of monitoring, planning and strategic reasoning. This paper presents an agent-based meta-level architecture for the im...
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Formal Interpretation and Analysis of Collective Intelligence as Individual Intelligence
This paper addresses the question to what extent a process involving multiple agents that shows some form of collective intelligence can be interpreted as a single agent. The question is answered by formal ana...
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Requirements Analysis of an Agent’s Reasoning Capability
The aim of requirements analysis for an agent that is to be designed is to identify what characteristic capabilities the agent should have. One of the characteristics usually expected for intelligent agents is...
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Agent-Based Analysis and Support for Incident Management
This paper presents an agent-based approach for error detection in incident management organizations. The approach consists of several parts. First, a formal approach for the specification and hierarchical ver...
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Augmented Metacognition Addressing Dynamic Allocation of Tasks Requiring Visual Attention
This paper discusses the use of cognitive models as augmented metacognition on task allocation for tasks requiring visual attention. In the domain of naval warfare, the complex and dynamic nature of the enviro...
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Incorporating Emotion Regulation into Virtual Stories
This paper presents an approach to incorporate emotion regulation as addressed within psychology literature into virtual characters. To this end, first Gross’ informal theory of emotion regulation has been for...
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Case Analysis of Criminal Behaviour
In this paper, it is shown how behavioural properties can be specified for three types of violent criminals. Moreover, it is shown how empirical material in the form of informal descriptions of traces of crime...
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Formal Analysis of Trust Dynamics in Human and Software Agent Experiments
Recognizing that trust states are mental states, this paper presents a formal analysis of the dynamics of trust in terms of the functional roles and representation relations for trust states. This formal analy...
