We consider the role played by the concept of action in AI. We first briefly summarize the advantages and limitations of past approaches to taking the concept as primitive, as emb...
We present a new forward chaining planner, TALplanner, based on ideas developed by Bacchus [5] and Kabanza [11], where domain-dependent search control knowledge represented as tem...
As the Web becomes a platform for implementing complex B2C and B2B applications, there is a need to extend Web conceptual modeling to process-centric applications. In this context,...
Marco Brambilla, Alin Deutsch, Liying Sui, Victor ...
We describe a method for writing assumption/guarantee specifications of concurrent systems. We also provide a proof rule for reasoning about the composition of these systems. Spec...
The aim of this paper, is to provide a logical framework for reasoning about actions, agency, and powers of agents and coalitions in game-like multi-agent systems. First we define ...