As technology and legislation move forward (JAA & Eurocontrol, 2004) remotely controlled, semi-autonomous or autonomous Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) will play a significant role in providing services and enhancing safety and security of the military and civilian community at large (e.g. surveillance and monitoring) (Coifman et al., 2004). The potential market for UAVs is, however, much bigger ...

In collaborative planning dialogues, the agents have different beliefs about the domain and about each other; thus, it is inevitable that conflicts arise during the planning process. In this paper, we present a plan-based model for response generation during collaborative planning, based on a recursive Propose-Evaluate-Modify framework for modeling collaboration. We focus on identifying strateg...

One popular way to model how organisations work is through their internal processes. In the case of current economy, especially in the case of organisations doing business in Internet, the definition of those processes has the problem of continuous adaptation to market needs. Therefore, organisations need powerful tools for automatic modelling, simulating and optimising those processes in such ...

During content planning, a typical discourse generation system receives as input a library of facts and selects facts to include as the content for utterances. However, storytellers do not need to be completely constrained by a set of facts and instead can invent facts which support the storytellers goals, subsequently constructing the storyworld around those facts. We present a discourse-drive...

In computer games, one or more groups of units need to move from one location to another as quickly as possible. If there is only one group, then it can be solved efficiently as a dynamic flow problem. If there are several groups with different origins and destinations, then the problem becomes NP-hard. In current games, these problems are solved by using greedy ad hoc rules, leading to long tr...

Abstract Future direct imaging missions similar to the HabEx and LUVOIR mission concepts aim catalog characterize Earth-mass analogs around nearby stars. The exoplanet yield of these will be dependent on frequency Earth-like planets, potentially a priori knowledge which stars specifically host suitable planetary systems. Ground- or space-based radial velocity surveys can perform pre-selection t...