Developing agent applications is a complex and difficult task due to a variety of reasons. One key aspect making multi-agent systems more complicated than traditional applications is that interaction behavior is based on elaborate communication forms such as negotiations instead of simple method calls. Aimed at facilitating the specification and usage of agent communication, agent research resu...

This paper explores the relationship between aims, objectives, and business (or strategic) goals. In a study in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) we see these ideas as drivers of systems analysis and service management. This paper explores the initiation of a business-to-business relationship between a client wishing to establish a customer help-line, and an outsourced contact centre solut...

We introduce goal-oriented clustering, a process that clusters items with the explicit knowledge that the ultimate use of the clusters is prediction. In this approach, we use data on a set of target variables (those we want to predict) and a set of input variables (those we do not want to predict) to learn a graphical (generative) model with a single hidden layer of discrete variables H. The st...

Today’s activity and context recognition system have the drawback to use a static sensing infrastructure that has to be defined at the design time of the system. The predefined sensing infrastructure needed to work properly, as well as the fixed recognition purpose limits the flexibility of such a system as it can’t react on changes in the sensing infrastructure nor it can address a change in i...

te purpose of research was identifying the relationship between achievement motivation and efficiency of agricultural faculty staff, islamic azad university shoushtar branch. the method of research was a descriptive-correlative. the sample size was agricultural faculty staff (n=45). a five-point likert-type scale was used as the instrument to gather data in order to measure the achievement moti...