The problem investigated in this paper is the distribution of goals addressed to a group of rational agents. Those agents are characterized by their ability (i.e. what they can do...
Matchmaking is the problem of matching offers and requests, such as supply and demand in a marketplace, services and customers in a service agency, etc., where both partners are ...
Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Francesco M....
Capturing and exploiting knowledge is at the heart of several important problems such as decision making, the semantic web, and intelligent agents. The captured knowledge must be a...
Vinay K. Chaudhri, Kenneth S. Murray, John Pacheco...
In this paper we consider how a BDI agent might determine its best course of action. We draw on previous work which has presented a model of persuasion over action and we discuss ...
Katie Atkinson, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Peter Mc...
This paper describes a new environment, COE, for capturing and formally representing expert knowledge for use in the Semantic Web. COE exploits the ease of use and rapid knowledge...
Patrick J. Hayes, Thomas C. Eskridge, Raul Saavedr...
For decades, researchers in knowledge representation (KR) have argued for and against various choices in KR formalisms, such as Rules, Frames, Semantic nets, and Formal logic. In ...
In order to evaluate the performance of ontology matching algorithms it is necessary to confront them with test ontologies and to compare the results. The most prominent criteria ...
A new generation of intelligent applications can be enabled by broad-coverage knowledge repositories about everyday objects. We distill lessons in design of intelligent user inter...
The increasing complexity of clinical trials has generated an enormous requirement for knowledge and information specification at all stages of the trials, including planning, doc...
Ravi D. Shankar, Susana B. Martins, Martin J. O'Co...
We present a novel approach to knowledge-based automated oneshot multi-issue bilateral negotiation handling, in a homogeneous setting, both numerical features and non-numerical on...
Azzurra Ragone, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciasc...