— In this paper we address smooth and collision-free whole-body motion planning for humanoid robots. A two-stage iterative planning framework is introduced where geometric motion...
Web services are rapidly emerging as the reference paradigm for the interaction and coordination of distributed business processes. In several research papers we have shown how ad...
Michele Trainotti, Marco Pistore, Gaetano Calabres...
One vision of the “Semantic Web” of the future is that software agents will interact with each other using formal metadata that reveal their interfaces. We examine one plausibl...
Drew V. McDermott, Mark H. Burstein, Douglas R. Sm...
This paper presents the computational logic foundations of a model of agency called the KGP (Knowledge, Goals and Plan) model. This model allows the specification of heterogeneous...
Antonis C. Kakas, Paolo Mancarella, Fariba Sadri, ...
People engage in small talk and conversational storytelling to provide information in engaging ways and to serve interpersonal goals such as building rapport and credibility. Embo...