Logic Programs, Norms and Action

Logic Programs, Norms and Action

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  • Author: Alexander Artikis
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3642294146
  • Category : Computers
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 444

This book is dedicated to Marek Sergot, Professor in Computational Logic at Imperial College London, on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Professor Sergot’s scientific contributions range over many different fields. He has developed a series of novel ideas and formal methods bridging areas including artificial intelligence, computational logic, philosophical logic, legal theory, artificial intelligence and law, multi-agent systems and bioinformatics. By combining his background in logic and computing with his interest in the law, deontic logic, action, and related areas, and applying to all his capacity to understand the subtleties of social interaction and normative reasoning, Professor Sergot has opened up new directions of research, and has been a reference, an inspiration, and a model for many researchers in the fields to which he has contributed. The Festschrift includes several reminiscences and introductory essays describing Professor Sergot's achievements, followed by a series of articles on logic programming, temporal reasoning and action languages, artificial intelligence and law, deontic logic and norm-governed systems, and logical approaches to policies.


Engineering Societies in the Agents World VIII

Engineering Societies in the Agents World VIII

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  • Author: Alexander Artikis
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3540876545
  • Category : Computers
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 361

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World, ESAW 2007, held in Athens, Greece, in October 2007. The 19 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book. The papers are organized in topical sections on electronic institutions, models of complex distributed systems with agents and societies; interaction in agent societies; engineering social intelligence in multi-agent systems; trust and reputation in agent societies; analysis, design and development of agent societies.


Knowledge Representation for Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Knowledge Representation for Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

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  • Author: John-Jules Meyer
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 3642053009
  • Category : Computers
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 168

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the First International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, KRAMAS 2008, held in Sydney, Australia, in September 2008 as a satellite event of KR 2008, the 11th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. The papers foster the cross-fertilization between the KR (knowledge representation and reasoning) and agent communities, by discussing knowledge representation theories and techniques for agent-based systems.


Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems

Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems

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  • Author: Joao Leite
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3642223591
  • Category : Computers
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 398

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems, CLIMA XII, held in Barcelona, Spain, in July 2011. The 22 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. The purpose of the CLIMA workshops is to provide a forum for discussing techniques, based on computational logic, for representing, programming and reasoning about agents and multi-agent systems in a formal way. This volume features five thematic special sessions: secrets and trust, knowledge and beliefs, logics for games and social choice, cooperation, logic and languages, and norms and normative multi-agent systems.


Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies V

Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies V

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  • Author: Matteo Baldoni
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 3540775633
  • Category : Computers
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 255

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies, DALT 2007, held in Honolulu, USA, in 2007. It was an associated event of AAMAS 2007, the conference on autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. The 11 full papers, together with 1 keynote lecture and 2 invited papers from the AAMAS main conference were carefully selected and substantially enhanced after the workshop.


Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems IX

Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems IX

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  • Author: Tina Balke
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3319073141
  • Category : Computers
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 384

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th International Workshops on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems, COIN 2013. The workshops were co-located with AAMAS 2013, held in St. Paul, MN, USA in May 2013, and with PRIMA 2013, held in Dunedin, New Zealand, in December 2013. The 18 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions and are presented together with two invited papers. The papers are organized in topical sections such as coordination, organizations, institutions, norms, norm conflict, and norm-aware agents.


Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems XI

Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems XI

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  • Author: Virginia Dignum
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3319426915
  • Category : Computers
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 448

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 11th International Workshops on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems, COIN 2015. The workshops were co-located with AAMAS 2015, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in May 2015, and with IJCAI 2015, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July 2015. The 23 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 initial submissions for inclusion in this volume. The papers cover a wide range of topics from work on formal aspects of normative and team based systems, to software engineering with organizational concepts, to applications of COIN based systems, and to philosophical issues surrounding socio-technical systems. They highlight not only the richness of existing work in the field, but also point out the challenges and exciting research that remains to be done in the area.


A Protocol-theoretic Framework for the Logic of Epistemic Norms

A Protocol-theoretic Framework for the Logic of Epistemic Norms

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  • Author: Ralph Jenkins
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3031085973
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 540

This book defines a logical system called the Protocol-theoretic Logic of Epistemic Norms (PLEN), it develops PLEN into a formal framework for representing and reasoning about epistemic norms, and it shows that PLEN is theoretically interesting and useful with regard to the aims of such a framework. In order to motivate the project, the author defends an account of epistemic norms called epistemic proceduralism. The core of this view is the idea that, in virtue of their indispensable, regulative role in cognitive life, epistemic norms are closely intertwined with procedural rules that restrict epistemic actions, procedures, and processes. The resulting organizing principle of the book is that epistemic norms are protocols for epistemic planning and control. The core of the book is developing PLEN, which is essentially a novel variant of propositional dynamic logic (PDL) distinguished by more or less elaborate revisions of PDL’s syntax and semantics. The syntax encodes the procedural content of epistemic norms by means of the well-known protocol or program constructions of dynamic and epistemic logics. It then provides a novel language of operators on protocols, including a range of unique protocol equivalence relations, syntactic operations on protocols, and various procedural relations among protocols in addition to the standard dynamic (modal) operators of PDL. The semantics of the system then interprets protocol expressions and expressions embedding protocols over a class of directed multigraph-like structures rather than the standard labeled transition systems or modal frames. The intent of the system is to better represent epistemic dynamics, build a logic of protocols atop it, and then show that the resulting logic of protocols is useful as a logical framework for epistemic norms. The resulting theory of epistemic norms centers on notions of norm equivalence derived from theories of process equivalence familiar from the study of dynamic and modal logics. The canonical account of protocol equivalence in PLEN turns out to possess a number of interesting formal features, including satisfaction of important conditions on hyperintensional equivalence, a matter of recently recognized importance in the logic of norms, generally. To show that the system is interesting and useful as a framework for representing and reasoning about epistemic norms, the author applies the logical system to the analysis of epistemic deontic operators, and, partly on the basis of this, establishes representation theorems linking protocols to the action-guiding content of epistemic norms. The protocol-theoretic logic of epistemic norms is then shown to almost immediately validate the main principles of epistemic proceduralism.


Handbook on Artificial Intelligence-Empowered Applied Software Engineering

Handbook on Artificial Intelligence-Empowered Applied Software Engineering

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  • Author: Maria Virvou
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3031076508
  • Category : Technology & Engineering
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 209

Evolving technological advancements in big data, smartphone and mobile software applications, the Internet of Things and a vast range of application areas in all sorts of human activities and professions, lead current research toward the efficient incorporation of artificial intelligence enhancements into software and the empowerment of software with artificial intelligence. The book at hand, devoted to Smart Software Applications in Cyber-Physical Systems, constitutes the second volume of a two-volume Handbook on Artificial Intelligence-empowered Applied Software Engineering. Topics include very significant advances in Smart Software Applications in (i) Scientific Document Processing, (ii) Enterprise Modeling, (iii) Education, (iv) Health care and Medicine, and (v) Infrastructure Monitoring. Professors, researchers, scientists, engineers, and students in artificial intelligence, software engineering, and computer science-related disciplines are expected to benefit from it, along with interested readers from other disciplines.


Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems II

Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems II

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  • Author: Pablo Noriega
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 3540744576
  • Category : Computers
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 375

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems, COIN 2006, held as two events at AAMAS 2006, the 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems in Hakodate, Japan, and ECAI 2006, the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Riva del Garda, Italy.