Domain independent planners can produce better-quality plans through the use of domain-speci c knowledge, typically encoded as search control rules. The planning-by-rewriting appro...
Abstract. This paper presents a framework that enables autonomous agents to dynamically select the mechanism they employ in order to coordinate their inter-related activities. Adop...
Rachel A. Bourne, Cora B. Excelente-Toledo, Nichol...
Traditional approaches to distributed problem solving have treated the problem as one of distributed search. In this paper, we propose an alternative, logic-based view of distribut...
We begin with a number of basic facts about creativity and a brief history of the idea. These provide criteria that any definition of the term should meet and help guide us to a n...
Abstract. This paper presents a coherentist approach to argumentation that extends previous proposals on cognitive coherence based agent communication pragmatics (inspired from soc...
Philippe Pasquier, Iyad Rahwan, Frank Dignum, Liz ...