This paper targets personal privacy protection in context-aware ubiquitous computing environments. It proposes a privacy agent technology to help notify people of relevant information disclosure, and to empower them to manage privacy with relative ease. In essence, the development of the privacy agent technology employs privacy terminology and policies specified in Platform for Privacy Preferen...

One might imagine that AI systems with harmless goals will be harmless. This paper instead shows that intelligent systems will need to be carefully designed to prevent them from behaving in harmful ways. We identify a number of “drives” that will appear in sufficiently advanced AI systems of any design. We call them drives because they are tendencies which will be present unless explicitly coun...

Microgrids have become a hot topic driven by the dual pressures of environmental protection concerns and the energy crisis. In this paper, a challenge for the distributed control of a modern electric grid incorporating clusters of residential microgrids is elaborated and a hierarchical multi-agent system (MAS) is proposed as a solution. The issues of how to realize the hierarchical MAS and how ...

Intelligent agent is a kind of software program, a composition of computer software and statistics. It is capable to transfer from one computer to another autonomously and maintain its execution on the intention computer. Although agent systems are capable to finding applications in significant and insightful applications; however with these applications are initiating apprehensions for protect...

The primary focus of this paper is on the system-architecture and language level issues for agent-based distributed computing. It establishes interrelationships between the elements of an agent-based system and the components of a distributed object management system based on the CORBA model. An agent-based application system can be built as a collection of distributed objects, some of which ar...

One of the challenges of designing virtual humans is the definition of appropriate models of the relation between realistic emotions and the coordination of behaviors in several modalities. In this paper we present the annotation, representation and modeling of multimodal visual behaviors occurring during complex emotions. We illustrate our work using a corpus of TV interviews. This corpus has ...

Protecting critical infrastructures, such as electrical power grids, has become a significant concern for many nation states in recent years. Increasing attention is being given to the problem of infrastructure modeling, in order to help identify and redress potential vulnerabilities. Understanding critical infrastructure behavior involves modeling not only individual infrastructures, but also ...

MAHAJAN, NIKHIL RAVINDRA. System Protection for Power Electronic Building Block Based DC Distribution Systems. (Under the direction of Mesut E Baran) The purpose of this research has been to develop an agent based protection and reconfiguration scheme for power electronic building block based (PEBB) DC distribution systems. One of the foremost applications would be in the new zonal DC distribut...

This paper investigates the effects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) on CEO compensation, using panel data constructed for the S&P 1500 firms on CEO compensation, financial returns, and reported accounting income. Empirically SOX (i) changes the relationship between a firm’s abnormal returns and CEO compensation, (ii) changes the underlying distribution of abnormal returns, and (iii) significant...

In automated negotiation systems consisting of self-interested agents, contracts have traditionally been binding. Leveled commitment contracts — i.e., contracts where each party can decommit by paying a predetermined penalty — were recently shown to improve expected social welfare even if agents decommit strategically in Nash equilibrium. Such contracts differ based on whether agents have to de...