Efficiency dictates that plans for large-scale distributed activities be revised incrementally, with parts of plans being revised only if the expected utility of identifying and revising the subplans improve on the expected utility of using the original plan. The problems of identifying and reconsidering the subplans affected by changed circumstances or goals are closely related to the problems...

Beliefs specified for predicting an unobserved realization of pivotal variables in the context of the fiducial and Dempster-Shafer (DS) inference can be weakened for credible inference. We consider predictive random sets for predicting an unobserved random sample from a known distribution, e.g., the uniform distribution U(0, 1). More specifically, we choose our beliefs for inference in two step...

Social commitment protocols regulate interactions of agents in multiagent systems. Several methods have been developed to analyze properties of commitment protocols. However, analysis of an agent’s behavior in a commitment protocol, which should take into account the agent’s goals and beliefs, has received less attention. In this paper we present ProMoca framework to address this issue. Firstly...

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