Mechanical systems, of the kinds which are of interest for qualitative reasoning, are characterized by a set of real-valued parameters, each of which is a piecewise continuous fun...
—Towards a data-centric workflow approach, we introduce an artifact model to capture data and workflow management activities in distributed settings. The model is built on Acti...
Serge Abiteboul, Pierre Bourhis, Alban Galland, Bo...
Agent orientation is currently pursued primarily as a software paradigm. Software with characteristics such as autonomy, sociality, reactivity and proactivity, and communicative an...
In this paper, we present a simulation model specifically for investigating formal and informal organisational structures. CAVALIER-NPA (Networks of Planning Agents) is an agent-b...
Qualitative Coalitional Games (QCGs) are a version of coalitional games in which an agent's desires are represented as goals which are either satisfied or unsatisfied, and ea...