A key factor that can dramatically reduce the search space during constraint solving is the criterion under which the variable to be instantiated next is selected. For this purpos...
We develop a variant of the Nelder-Mead (NM) simplex search procedure for stochastic simulation optimization that is designed to avoid many of the weaknesses encumbering such dire...
The AgentSpeak agent-oriented programming language has recently been extended with a number of new features, such as speech-act based communication, internal belief additions, and...
Natasha Alechina, Rafael H. Bordini, Jomi Fred H&u...
Muskens presents in Meaning and Partiality a semantics of possibly contradictory beliefs and other propositional attitudes. We propose a different partial logic based on a few key...
Abstract—We had previously proposed an outstanding evolutionary method, Automatically Defined Groups (ADG), for generating heterogeneous cooperative agents, and then we had deve...