While in most planning approaches goals and plans are different objects, it is often useful to specify goals that combine declarative conditions with procedural plans. In this pap...
Enabling and managing coordination activities between autonomous, possibly mobile, computing entities in dynamic computing scenarios challenges traditional approaches to distribut...
Understanding the structure of knowledge communities, and particularly the organization of "epistemic communities", or groups of agents sharing common knowledge concerns...
Spatial search problems abound in the real world, from locating hidden nuclear or chemical sources to finding skiers after an avalanche. We exemplify the formalism and solution fo...
Multi-agent systems are an attractive approach to modeling systems of interacting entities, but in some cases mathematical models of these systems can offer complementary benefits...