This paper describes techniques developed for conflict detection during plan integration. Agents' intensions are represented with intended goal structure (IGS) and the E-PERT diagrams. Conflicts are classified as goal, plan, and belief conflicts. Before integrating individual plans and detecting plan conflicts, agents first detect and eliminate their goal conflicts by exchanging their IGS. Plan...

>> PSOE government has adopted one of the most progressive immigration policies of all EU member states, and this has had a positive impact on its foreign policy. However, since the financial crisis, the integration of immigrants in Spain has rapidly decreased. Before, immigrants were seen to play a leading role in the country’s economic growth. In February 2007, Spain’s Council of Ministers ap...

Neural circuits associated with response conflict are active during deception. Here we use transcranial magnetic stimulation to examine for the first time whether competing responses in primary motor cortex can be used to detect lies. Participants used their little finger or thumb to respond either truthfully or deceitfully regarding facial familiarity. Motor-evoked-potentials (MEPs) from muscl...

We describe Streamer, the query-reformulation component of a data integration system. Given a utility measure and a user query, Streamer uses abstraction-based reenement planning and exploits information on plan independence to produce, in decreasing order of utility, a set of plans that access data sources to obtain answers to the query. We then focus on plan coverage as an important utility m...

We describe Streamer, the query-reformulation component of a data integration system. Given a utility measure and a user query, Streamer uses abstraction-based reenement planning and exploits information on plan independence to produce, in decreasing order of utility, a set of plans that access data sources to obtain answers to the query. We then focus on plan coverage as an important utility m...

Prospection is thinking about possible future states of the world. Commitment to perform a future action-commonly referred to as intention-is a specific type of prospection. This knowledge is relevant when trying to assess whether a stated intention is a lie or the truth. An important observation is that thinking of, and committing to, future actions often evoke vivid and detailed mental images...