The problem of action selection by autonomous agents becomes increasingly difficult when acting in continuous, non-deterministic and dynamic environments pursuing multiple and possibly conflicting goals. We propose a method that exploits additional information gained from continuous states, is able to deal wi th unexpected situations, and takes multiple and conflicting goals into account includ...

In agent theory and agent programming, goals constitute the motivational attitude of rational agents and form the key concept in explaining and generating their pro-active behavior. Pursuing multiple goals simultaneously might pose problems for agents as the plans for achieving them may conflict. We argue that a BDI-based agent programming language should provide constructs to allow an agent pr...

Personal tutorials are an essential feature of student support in British universities, and therefore they duplicated on overseas campuses. It appears that Chinese students reluctant to seek help when experience personal difficulties affect their engagement with learning academic performance. Limited literature explores this phenomenon relevant studies only focusing students’ experiences abroad...

Any exploration of the power dynamics that underly Franco-German tandem can surely benefit from insights creation Common Agriculture Policy provides. The purpose this article is to ascertain which government achieved its objectives more fully during negotiations between France and West Germany leading up CAP, determine how those greater successes might be explained. This by applying discourse a...

Through a feminist critique of the ethnography method and the use of reflective HCI and global ethnography methodology, in this paper I will provide a discussion of methodological challenges for transnational design research using ethnographic methods. This discourse is meant to explore potential adjustments to HCI’s common use of ethnographic methods; specific attention is given to transnation...