Abstract. Ghost variables are assignable variables that appear in program annotations but do not correspond to physical entities. They are used to facilitate specification and ver...
Abstract. We present a declarative language, PP, for the specification of preferences between possible solutions (or trajectories) of a planning problem. This novel language allow...
Abstract. An agent communication protocol specifies the rules of interaction governing a dialogue between agents in a multiagent system. In non-cooperative interactions (such as n...
Ulrich Endriss, Nicolas Maudet, Fariba Sadri, Fran...
Abstract. We present a systematic procedure for the synthesis and minimisation of digital circuits using propositional satisfiability. We encode the truth table into a canonical s...
Abstract. Logic-based Benders decomposition can combine mixed integer programming and constraint programming to solve planning and scheduling problems much faster than either metho...