This paper addresses the issues related to the decision processes of manufacturing system simulation. The manufacturing system is perceived in terms of intelligent entities capabl...
We present a formal theory of model-based testing, an algorithm for test generation based on it, and outline how testing is implemented by a diagnostic engine. The key to making t...
One big obstacle to understanding the nature of hierarchical task network (htn) planning has been the lack of a clear theoretical framework. In particular, no one has yet presente...
To design a task-independent dialogue system, we present a task-oriented dialogue analysis in terms of finding the referents of definite descriptions and we show how this analysis...
Abstract. Based on the formal-ontological paradigm of Constructive Descriptions and Situations, we propose a definition of social collectives that includes social agents, plans, no...