Abstract. In this work, an agent architecture that combines defeasible argumentation and the BDI model is described. Argumentation will be used as a mechanism for reasoning about b...
Abstract. Constraints and preferences are ubiquitous in real-life. Moreover, preferences can be of many kinds: qualitative, quantitative, conditional, positive or negative, to name...
This paper considers the design of agent strategies for deciding whether to help other members of a group with whom an agent is engaged in a collaborative activity. Three characte...
Epistemic logic allows to reason not only about situations, but also about the knowledge that a set of agents have about situations. In later years, epistemic logic has been appli...
Achieving effective cooperation in a multi-agent system is a difficult problem for a number of reasons such as limited and possiblyout-datedviews of activitiesof other agents and ...