We present a formalism for representing the formation of intentions by agents engaged in cooperative activity. We use a syntactic approach presenting a formal logical calculus tha...
Proactive information delivery is critical to achieving effective teamwork. However, existing theories do not adequately address proactive information delivery. This paper present...
The use of software agents for automatic contract negotiation in e-commerce and e-trading ents has been the subject of considerable recent interest. A widely studied abstract mode...
Paul E. Dunne, Michael Wooldridge, Michael Laurenc...
The KNOWITALL system aims to automate the tedious process of extracting large collections of facts (e.g., names of scientists or politicians) from the Web in an unsupervised, doma...
Oren Etzioni, Michael J. Cafarella, Doug Downey, A...
The current research presents a system that learns to understand object names, spatial relation terms and event descriptions from observing narrated action sequences. The system e...
This paper presents a theory of informative communications among agents that allows a speaker to communicate to a hearer truths about the state of the world; the occurrence of eve...
In this paper, we propose a practical framework for characterizing, evaluating and selecting reformulation techniques for reasoning about physical systems, with the long-term goal...
Berthe Y. Choueiry, Yumi Iwasaki, Sheila A. McIlra...
We present a compiler that translates a problem specification into a propositional satisfiability test (SAT). Problems are specified in a logic-based language, called NP-SPEC, whi...