We present a new approach to reinforcement learning in which the policies considered by the learning process are constrained by hierarchies of partially specified machines. This ...
This paper introduces a partition of the possible forms of knowledge according to their rela tionship to the basic objective of an intelligent agent, namely to act successfully ...
Understanding the structure of knowledge communities, and particularly the organization of "epistemic communities", or groups of agents sharing common knowledge concerns...
the abstraction level at which designers express systems, enabling new levels of design reuse, and providing for design chain integration ool flows and abstraction levels. The purp...
Recently, we introduced Behavioural State Machines (BSM ), a novel programming framework for development of cognitive agents with Jazzyk, its associated programming language and in...