Observation and communication are important aspects of agent teamwork. We employ the agent’s observability as the major means for individual agents to reason about the environme...
We present a proof calculus and method for the static verification of assertions and procedure specifications in shared-memory concurrent programs. The key idea in our approach is...
When several agents operate in a common environment, their plans may interfere so that the predicted outcome of each plan may be altered, even if it is composed of deterministic ac...
Achieving effective cooperation in a multi-agent system is a difficult problem for a number of reasons such as limited and possiblyout-datedviews of activitiesof other agents and ...
Defeasible Logic is extended to programming languages for cognitive agents with preferences and actions for planning. We define rule-based agent theories that contain preferences ...