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ECAI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
The KGP Model of Agency
This paper presents a new model of agency, called the KGP (Knowledge, Goals and Plan) model. This draws from the classic BDI model and proposes a hierarchical agent architecture wi...
Antonis C. Kakas, Paolo Mancarella, Fariba Sadri, ...
ECAI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
FIRE: An Integrated Trust and Reputation Model for Open Multi-Agent Systems
Trust and reputation are central to effective interactions in open multi-agent systems in which agents, that are owned by a variety of stakeholders, can enter and leave the system ...
Trung Dong Huynh, Nicholas R. Jennings, Nigel R. S...
ECAI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Reasoning in Description Logics with a Concrete Domain in the Framework of Resolution
In description logics, concrete domains are used to model concrete properties such as weight, name, or age, having concrete values such as integers or strings, with built-in predic...
Ullrich Hustadt, Boris Motik, Ulrike Sattler
ECAI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Temporal Plan Interdependencies
Abstract. Asbru is a complex formal language developed to represent clinical guidelines and protocols which are time- and processoriented. To facilitate and support the modeling in...
Katharina Kaiser, Silvia Miksch
ECAI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Representing Beliefs in the Fluent Calculus
Action formalisms like the fluent calculus have been developed to endow logic-based agents with the abilities to reason about the effects of actions, to execute high-level strateg...
Yi Jin, Michael Thielscher
ECAI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Simplicity in Solving the Frame Problem
Abstract. This paper presents an approach for reasoning about action and change which appeals to the principle of Occam’s razor— roughly stating that the simplest explanations ...
Victor Jauregui, Maurice Pagnucco, Norman Y. Foo
ECAI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Postponing Branching Decisions
Abstract. Solution techniques for Constraint Satisfaction and Optimisation Problems often make use of backtrack search methods, exploiting variable and value ordering heuristics. I...
Willem Jan van Hoeve, Michela Milano
ECAI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Domain Descriptions Should Be Modular
This work is about the metatheory of actions, and here we address the problem of what a good domain description for reasoning about actions should look like. We state some postulat...
Andreas Herzig, Ivan José Varzinczak
ECAI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Robust Solutions for Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization
Super solutions are a mechanism to provide robustness to constraint programs [10]. They are solutions in which, if a small number of variables lose their values, we are guaranteed ...
Emmanuel Hebrard, Brahim Hnich, Toby Walsh