Abduction is an important form of nonmonotonic reasoning allowing one to find explanations for certain symptoms or manifestations. When the application domain is described by a l...
Abduction or retroduction, as introduced by C.S. Peirce in the double sense of searching for explanatory instances and providing an explanation (i.e., involving the procedure of s...
Argumentation is a promising approach used by autonomous agents for reasoning about inconsistent knowledge, based on the construction and the comparison of arguments. In this pape...
A rational agent adopts (or changes) its goals when new information (beliefs) becomes available or its desires (e.g., tasks it is supposed to carry out) change. In conventional ap...
Although informative, the semantic definition proposed for the most standard agent communication language (FIPA ACL 1997) is complicated and contentious, while published interact...
Shamimabi Paurobally, Jim Cunningham, Nicholas R. ...