The role of social commitments in distributed, multi-agent planning and plan execution will be discussed in this article. We argue agents’ capability to reason about the actions in the form of social commitments directly improving robustness of the plans in dynamic, multi-actor environment. We focused on relaxation decommitment strategy, targeted specifically to the time interval in which the a...

Despite increasing interest in leveraging the wealth of online social media data to support data-based decision making, much work in this direction has focused on tasks with straightforward “labeling” decisions. A much richer class of tasks can benefit from the power of sequential decision making. However, supporting such tasks requires learning some form of action or decision models from unstr...

Intelligent problem solving requires the ability to select actions autonomously from a specific state to reach objectives. Planning algorithms provide approaches to look ahead and select a complete sequence of actions. Given a domain description consisting of preconditions and effects of the actions the planner can take, an initial state, and a goal, a planning program returns a sequence of act...

We present a user survey on the use of location-based search in Honduras, a developing country in Latin America. Our goal is to understand the current state of local search and the tasks people are trying to accomplish and gather insights into information seeking behavior. We survey early adopters in the form of students and staff of a university. The results suggest that due to specific charac...

Globalisation, outsourcing and customisation are main challenges of today not least for one-of-a-kind producers. A crucial competitive factor will be the ability rapidly to form customer focused virtual enterprises comprised of competencies from different partners by taking full advantage of ICT. To prepare for this is a complex task, in fact all business, management and planning views, and rel...