Mainstreaming and industrialising agent technologies requires suitable methodological and technological support for the various engineering activities associated with managing the...
We consider the problem of incorporating arbitrary preferences in planning systems. A preference may be seen as a goal or constraint that is desirable, but not necessary, to satis...
Clusters of workstations are a popular alternative to integrated parallel systems designed and built by a vendor. Besides their huge cumulative processing power, they also provide...
The study of belief change has been an active area in philosophy and AI.In recent years two special cases ofbelief change, belief revision and belief update, have been studied in ...
In languages that support polymorphic variants, a single variant value can be passed to many contexts that accept different sets of constructors. Polymorphic variants are potenti...