Desktop Agent Manager (DAM): Decision Mechanism

Desktop Agent Manager (DAM): Decision Mechanism

Desktop software agents are background processes that notify a computer user of certain predefined events. The complexity of desktop computing is increasing due to the proliferation of software agents. A desktop agent manager (DAM) may become an important component of desktop computing. This article focuses on the decision mechanism for the DAM to decide which agents should be allowed to access...

ARWin-A Desktop Augmented Reality Window Manager

We present ARWin, a single user 3D augmented reality desktop window manager, placing 3D user interfaces into a physical desktop workspace. We explain our design considerations and system architecture, exhibiting the ease with which such a system can be developed and used. We showcase a number of novel 3D applications, which take advantage of the environment to provide more powerful interactions...

A Mobile Agent Manager

Friendliness on user interfaces has been mostly forgot in mobile agent research. In fact the multitude of problems that have to be solved have left this more “simple” piece of the package out of target. However, the success of technology comes also from this important layer in the product development. This paper describes an application that integrates monitoring data from the mobile agents env...

OntoFM: A Personal Ontology-based File Manager for the Desktop

Personal ontologies have been proposed as a means to support the semantic management of user information. Assuming that a personal ontology system is in use, new tools have to be developed at user interface level to exploit the enhanced capabilities offered by the system. In this work, we present an ontology-based file manager that allows semantic searching on the user’s personal information sp...

SAS Decision Manager 2.2: User's Guide