At the request of the U.S. Department of Energy, the JASON group that provides independent technical advice to the U.S. Government studied Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) with a focus on i) assessment of technologies and approaches for subsurface imaging and characterization; and ii) assessment of approaches toward creating sites for EGS, including science and engineering to enhance permeabil...

This paper is based on the tutorial given as part of the tutorial programme of CLIMA-VI. The tutorial aimed at giving an overview of the various features available in Jason , a multi-agent systems development platform that is based on an interpreter for an extended version of AgentSpeak. The BDI architecture is the best known and most studied architecture for cognitive agents, and AgentSpeak is...

The main limitations of standard nadir-looking radar altimeters have been known for long. They include the lack of coverage (intertrack distance of typically 150 km for the T/P / Jason tandem), and the spatial resolution (typically 2 km for T/P and Jason), expected to be a limiting factor for the determination of mesoscale phenomena in deep ocean. In this context, various solutions using off-na...

This paper reports on current work at the University of California at Berkeley whose goal is the design and implementation of a relat ively inexpensive, but versa­ t i l e , experimental, computer-controlled robot suitable for use in either a research or educational sett ing. The Berkeley robot, dubbed Jason, is nearing comoletion and hardware tests are now being conducted. Jason is designed so...

In this paper, a metamodel, which can be used for modeling Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) agents working on Jason platform, is introduced. The metamodel provides the modeling of agents with including their belief bases, plans, sets of events, rules and actions respectively. We believe that the work presented herein contributes to the current multi-agent system (MAS) metamodeling efforts by takin...

[1] The Jet Propulsion Laboratory/University of Southern California Global Assimilation Ionospheric Model (JPL/USC GAIM) uses two data assimilation techniques to optimally combine ionospheric measurements with the physics model: a sparse, traditional Kalman filter to estimate the three-dimensional density state, and a four-dimensional variational approach (4DVAR) to estimate ionospheric drivers...

Even though the agent-oriented paradigm (AOP) has lost some of its charm in the past couple of years, the agent community is still active and a large variety of real world applications have been developed lately. Ranging from web applications to mobile applications, the paradigm has shown it is a viable choice. From an overview of these applications Jason seems to be the most widely used AOP la...

This paper begins with a brief survey of the microgenetic process thought of Jason Brown as it has developed from its neuropsychological inception to his more recent neurophilosophy. We then survey some of the arguments and systems of thought that have been put forth since the time of Plato, as they come to bear on the theory of microgenesis and the microgeny of values. Idealism comports surpri...

Sea level determination via satellite altimetry is subject to numerous error sources. One of these is the sea state bias where changing surface wave conditions alter an altimeter’s estimate of mean sea level. Recent work suggests that present day methods for correcting this bias, based solely on wave and wind information from the altimeter, may be improved if additional surface gravity wave fie...