A multi-robot environment with a STRIPS representation is considered. Under some assumptions such problems can be modelled as a STRIPS language (for instance, a Block World environment) with one initial state and a disjunction of goal states. If the STRIPS planning problem is invertible, then it is possible to apply the machinery for planning in the presence of incomplete information to solve t...

The major purpose of our research is to study cooperative planning for multi-agent system in time-critical environment. The RoboCup simulator league is the most interesting target for our research. Each agent of the team 11monkeys is realized as an autonomous agent that has two sets of rules, namely state dependent rules and position specified rules. We call the former dynamic role and the latt...

An off‐line programming software designed for multiple robots cooperation system is presented in this paper. At the beginning of the paper, current technologies of robot off‐line programming are reviewed and summarized. Then, present status of cooperative functions and cooperative motion instructions defined by predominant robot manufacturers are introduced. Thereafte...

Information systems technology, computer-supported cooperative work practice, and organizational modeling and planning theories have evolved with only accidental contact to each other. Cooperative information systems is a relatively young research area which tries to systematically investigate the synergies between these research fields, driven by the observation that change management is the c...

We are interested in understanding and simulating how humans elaborate plans in situations where knowledge is incomplete and how they interact to obtain missing information. Our human interaction model is based on the speech act theory to model the utterances and it uses timed automata to describe the dynamics of the dialogs. Our human planning model is implemented as a hierarchical blackboard ...

In this paper, we suggest a framework that allows for the simulation-based performance assessment of algorithms for cooperative transportation planning. Therefore, we consider a coupling architecture that connects simulation models of the logistic system and the transportation planning algorithms. The center point of this architecture is a blackboard-type data layer between transportation plann...

Multiagent planning deals with the problem of generatingplans for multiple agents. It requires formalizing ways for the agents tointeract and cooperate, in order to achieve their goals. We will discuss twopossible ways for agents to interact: the execution of cooperative actionsand negotiations. We begin with the introduction of an action languagefor specifying multiagent pl...

Within the natural-language research community it has long been acknowledged that the conventions and pragmatics of natural-language communication often oblige dialogue systems to consider and address the underlying purposes of queries in their responses rather than answering them literally and without further comment or elaboration. Such systems cannot simply translate their users' requests in...