The requirement for Grid middleware to be largely transparent to individual users and at the same time act in accordance with their personal needs is a difficult challenge. In e-...
The core capability of a rational agent is to choose its next action in a rational fashion, a capability that can be put to good use by a designer to satisfy the design objectives ...
The problem investigated in this paper is the distribution of goals addressed to a group of rational agents. Those agents are characterized by their ability (i.e. what they can do...
Most previous logical accounts of goals do not deal with prioritized goals and goal dynamics properly. Many are restricted to achievement goals. In this paper, we develop a logica...
Abstract-- Complex robots with many interacting components in their control architectures are subject to component failures from which neither the control architecture nor the impl...