The construction of rational agents is one of the goals that has been pursued in Artiicial Intelligence (AI). In most of the architectures that have been proposed for this kind of agents, its behaviour is guided by its set of beliefs. In our work, rational agents are those systems that are permanently engaged in the process of rational inquiry; thus, their beliefs keep evolving in time, as a co...

The concept of sustainability inspired most urban development plans after Rio 1992, although many such plans have not been too successful. An important reason for this is the disjuncture of science from culture and traditional knowledge and planners’ inability to conceptualize the environmental values of societies.This research aims to explore storytelling’s ability to aid in identifying of env...

Grady Booch: Over the years, Rational has been involved with customers from around the world in literally tens of thousands of software projects for every imaginable problem domain. From that experience, we've observed what has worked and what has not, then codified those best practices in the form of the Rational Unified Process® (RUP®) as well as made them manifest in and encouraged by our to...