Abstract. Research on practical models of autonomous agents has largely focused on a procedural view of goal achievement. This allows for efficient implementations, but prevents an...
Autonomic systems are typically distributed, complex and concurrent systems, comprised of multiple interacting autonomic elements that often exhibit emergent behavior. Design and ...
Radovan Cervenka, Dominic A. P. Greenwood, Ivan Tr...
Current IT application domains such as web services and autonomic computing call for highly flexible systems, able to automatically adapt to changing operational environments as w...
Loris Penserini, Anna Perini, Angelo Susi, John My...
Ambient intelligence envisages a world saturated with sensors and other embedded computing technologies, operating transparently, and accessible to all in a seamless and intuitive ...
Conor Muldoon, Gregory M. P. O'Hare, Michael J. O'...
We adopt the decision-theoretic principle of expected utility maximization as a paradigm for designing autonomous rational agents, and present a framework that uses this paradigm t...