The networked information economy and society present a new social, technical, and economic environment within which the university functions. To understand the new challenges and opportunities this environment presents, we need a usable characterization of the core new characteristics of both the environment and the university as a system and how those characteristics interact to define today’...

Societies need patterned behavior to exist. Large-scale agent societies may contain a diversity of agents, each with differing abilities and functionalities. When such an agent system is given a task, it must dynamically muster together a group of agents that collectively have the capability to accomplish the task. To do this, the agent society needs to be able to understand its agents and thei...

This document specifies the payload format for packetization of KLV (Key-Length-Value) Encoded Data, as defined by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) in SMPTE ST 336, into the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP). Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at in effect on the date of publication ...

This paper addresses the question of how, in a futures context derived from perspectives surrounding clinical genetics, prenatal diagnosis and disability advocacy, there is a requirement for a third moral space. Just what this requirement is, and some of the reasons for it, shall be discussed here. In order to ground the paper in the current situation, attention is drawn, firstly to a chapter i...

This paper investigates t-intersecting families of injections, where two injections a, b from [k] to [n] t-intersect if there exists X ⊆ [k] with |X| ≥ t such that a(x) = b(x) for all x ∈ X. We prove that if F is a 1-intersecting injection family of maximal size then all elements of F have a fixed image point in common. We show that when n is large in terms of k and t, the set of injections whi...

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The notion of society should play a central role in agent-oriented software engineering as a first-class abstraction around which complex systems can be designed and built as multi-agent systems. We argue that an effective agentoriented methodology should account for inter-agent aspects by providing engineers with specific abstractions and tools for the analysis and design of agent societies an...

In this paper, we argue that multi-agent systems developed to model and support organizations must on the one hand be able to describe and realize the goals and structure of that particular organization and on the other hand allow for autonomous behavior of participating actors. The agent autonomy should include collaboration autonomy, which means that agents can decide among each other how the...