Believable agents are defined to be interactive versions of quality characters in traditional artistic media like film. Such agents are useful in applications such as interactive ...
Engineering problem solving requires both domain knowledge and an understanding of how to apply that knowledge. While much of the recent work in qualitative physics has focused on...
A logical database schema, e.g. a relational one, is an implementation of a speci cation, e.g. an entity-relationship diagram. Upcoming new data models and the necessity of seamle...
In this tutorial the specialisation of declarative logic programs is presented. The main correctness results are given, and the outline of a basic algorithm for partial evaluation...
In this paper, we view planning as a special case of reasoning about indefinite actions. We treat actions as predicates defined over a linear temporal order. This formalism permit...