Abstract. Agents may choose to ignore contract violations if the costs of enforcing the contract exceed the compensation they would receive. In this paper we provide an argumentati...
This paper introduces and describes an innovative modelling approach which utilises models that are synthesised through approximate calculations of user actions and extensive repr...
Temporal projection-predicting future states of a changing world-has been studied mainly as a formal problem. Researchers have been concerned with getting the concepts of causalit...
The formalism of nonmonotonic causal theories (Giunchiglia, Lee, Lifschitz, McCain, Turner, 2004) provides a general-purpose formalism for nonmonotonic reasoning and knowledge repr...
Interactions between agents in an open system such as the Internet require a significant degree of flexibility. A crucial aspect of the development of such methods is the notion o...