We address the collaborative planning problem in teams of agents where partners have different objectives and norms. In this context, agreeing on the best course of action to adopt represents a significant challenge. Concurrent actions and causal plan-constraints may lead to conflicts of opinion on what to do. Moreover, individual norms can constrain agent behaviour. We propose an argumentation...

Quality in e-learning should be measured from three perspectives: technology, pedagogy, and management and administration. This paper examines the pedagogical and methodological perspective, specifically in the work developed by the professors of the course “East Asian Geography”, a compulsory course of the Programme of East Asian Studies. The authors consider that the teaching and learning met...

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is finding increasing acceptance in industry for the design of enterprise-scale, networked applications. However, opportunities to study SOA in appropriately interdisciplinary ways are currently lacking for college students. In this paper, we present the design of a graduate and upper division undergraduate level course that combines elements of business, eng...

Austin Tate, Je Dalton and John Levine Arti cial Intelligence Applications Institute The University of Edinburgh 80 South Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1HN, UK fa.tate, j.dalton, [email protected] http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~oplan Abstract In this paper, we present a Web-based demonstration of a Course of Action (COA) comparison matrix being used as an interface to an O-Plan plan server to explore multi...

The vast growth and reach of internet and social media have led to a tremendous increase in socio-behavioral interaction content on the web. The ever-increasing number of online interactions have led to a growing interest to understand and interpret online communications to enhance user experience. This includes personalization, user retention, predicting user interests, and product recommendat...

UNLABELLED Objective of the study is to evaluate volumetric and dosimetric alterations taking place during radiotherapy for locally advanced head and neck cancer (LAHNC) and to assess benefit of replanning in them. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty patients with LAHNC fulfilling the inclusion and exclusion criteria were enrolled in a prospective study. Planning scans were acquired both pre-treatme...

Evidence-based guidelines recommend regular colorectal cancer (CRC) screening for adults 50 years and older, yet screening rates remain very low. In this paper we describe the challenges associated with recruitment and retention of provider organizations (POs) for a group randomized, controlled effectiveness trial to increase CRC screening, among patients in a managed care health insurance plan...

Developing a lesson plan (or syllabus) for a course can be a very time consuming process. Once the instructor has a pool of topics to be taught in the course, the organization of those topics in a form that facilitates understandability by the students as well as efficiency with respect to the order of presentation can be an elusive task – many times considered to be an art that distinguishes g...

Plan(x) → Plan(x) ∧ ∀yz. ((Role(y) ∧ Uses(x,y)) → (Endurant(z) ∧ Selects(y,z))) ∧ ∀wk. ((Task(w) ∧ Uses(x,w)) → (Perdurant(k) ∧ Selects(w,k))) only states general restrictions over plan components and situation elements. We need to express acondition by which an instance of an abstract plan specifies instances of plan components, but noinstances of situation elements, e.g. that manager ...

An agent that learns about the world while performing its jobs has to plan in a flexible and focused manner: it has to reflect on how to perform its jobs while accomplishing them, focus on critical aspects of important subtasks, and ignore irrelevant aspects of their context. It also has to postpone planning when lacking information, reconsider its course of action when noticing opportunities, ...