When developing BDI agent-based systems, some design patterns such as incompatible intentions, multiple strategies, intention decomposition, etc. would be very useful in order to catch some desired agent behaviours. As BDI agent programmers, our desire would be to have a framework that natively support such common patterns. The PRACTIONIST framework provides a goal-oriented approach for develop...

Frontiers of Business Cycle Research (hereafter referred to as Frontiers) is a collection of papers describing most of the important aspects of the real business cycle (RBC) research program pioneered by Kydland and Prescott (1982). A useful reference point for Frontiers is Lucas (1980), which describes developments in business cycle theory to the time when the RBC program was about to make its...

The distributions of income and wealth in countries across the world are found to possess some robust and stable features independent of the specific economic, social and political conditions of the countries. We discuss a few physics-inspired multiagent dynamic models along with their microeconomic counterparts, that can produce the statistical features of the distributions observed in reality...

Designers across a variety of domains engage in many of the same creative activities. Since much creativity stems from using old solutions in novel ways, we believe that case-based reasoning can be used to explain many creative design processes.

To describe dark energy we introduce a fluid model with no free parameter on the microscopic level. The constituents of this fluid are massless particles which are a dynamical realisation of the unextended D = (3+ 1) Galilei algebra. These particles are exotic as they live in an enlarged phase space. Their only interaction is with gravity. A minimal coupling to the gravitational field, satisfyi...

Being able to control logistics on the network level demands transparency to inventory and deliveries in the whole supply network. However, the information technology (IT) solutions enabling network transparency are expensive and heavy to install and, thus, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) often find them infeasible. This paper brings forth the difficulties small and medium sized enter...

Case-Based Reasoning (CBR), which provides a foundation for a new technology of intelligent computer systems that can solve problems and adapt to new situations, is the process of solving new problems based on the solutions of similar past problems. In the present paper we give a fuzzy representation of a CBR system and we use the total possibilistic uncertainty as a measure of its effectivenes...