The Scenario-based Engineering Process (SEP)is a novel approachto developingcomplexsystems.SEPbuilds newapplication systemsthrougha selectionprocessthat groupsprimitive components...
Autonomous agents that learn about their environment can be divided into two broad classes. One class of existing learners, reinforcement learners, typically employ weak learning ...
Agents (hardware or software) that act autonomously in an environment have to be able to integrate three basic behaviors: planning, execution, and learning. This integration is man...
— Mobile Agents model is widely accepted as a good solution to simplify the coordination in a complex and distributed environment. Pervasive computing, presents many issues regar...
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...