Abstract. This paper presents an approach that uses the techniques of plan recognition not only to infer short-term plans and goals, but also to infer the long-term procedural know...
Abstract. In this paper, we describe the declarative agent programming language Jadl (JIAC Agent Description Language). Based on threevalued logic, it incorporates ontologies, FIPA...
We develop a hierarchical approach to planning for partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) in which a policy is represented as a hierarchical finite-state control...
abstract mathematics. My mentor was Professor S. Bochner, a distinguished contributor to harmonic analysis. My classmates included Richard Bellman (who later nurtured the method of...
Execution plans produced by traditional query optimizers for data integration queries may yield poor performance for several reasons. The cost estimates may be inaccurate, the mem...