One approach to moderating the expected behaviour of agents in open societies is the use of explicit languages for defining norms, conditional commitments and/or social expectation...
Understanding goals and preferences behind a user's online activities can greatly help information providers, such as search engine and E-Commerce web sites, to personalize c...
Honghua (Kathy) Dai, Lingzhi Zhao, Zaiqing Nie, Ji...
Intentional agent systems are increasingly being used in a wide range of complex applications. Capabilities has recently been introduced into one of these systems as a software en...
This paper explains some analyses that can be performed on a hierarchical finite state machine to validate that it performs as intended. Such a hierarchical state machine has tra...
A critical aspect of an agent system is the ability to deal with unexpected situations to determine an appropriate course of action in a changing environment. In this paper, we inv...