This article describes an ontological model of norms. The basic assumption is that a substantial part of a legal system is grounded on the concept of agency. Since a legal system a...
We define a probe to be a single action sequence computed greedily from a given state that either terminates in the goal or fails. We show that by designing these probes carefull...
Initial deployment and subsequent dynamic reconfiguration of a software system is difficult because of the interplay of many interdependent factors, including cost, time, applicat...
Naveed Arshad, Dennis Heimbigner, Alexander L. Wol...
A generic architecture for autonomous agents is presented. In commonwith other current proposals the agent is capable of reacting to and reasoning about events which occur in its ...
Subrata Kumar Das, John Fox, D. Elsdon, Peter Hamm...
Goal-directed Markov Decision Process models (GDMDPs) are good models for many decision-theoretic planning tasks. They have been used in conjunction with two different reward stru...