Developing applications that make effective use of machine-readable knowledge sources as promised by the Semantic Web vision is attracting much of current research interest; this v...
Where the Object-Oriented paradigm set about abstracting objects, iented (AO) theory draws on Psychology to abstract mentalist notions like: beliefs, perceptions, goals, and intent...
The notion of maintenance often appears in the AI literature in the context of agent behavior and planning. In this paper, we argue that earlier characterizations of the notion of...
Goals are an important concept in intelligent agent systems, and can take a variety of forms. One such form is maintenance goals, which, unlike achievement goals, define states th...
Abstract. In most agent programming languages in practice a programmer is committed to the use of a single knowledge representation technology. In this paper we argue this is not n...