Gerhard Wickler

Planning and Choosing: Augmenting HTN-Based Agents with Mental Attitudes ∗ (2009)

Gerhard Wickler, Stephen Potter, Austin Tate, Michal Pěchouček, Eduard Semsch

This paper describes a new agent framework that fuses an HTN planner, through its underlying conceptual model, with the mental attitudes of the BDI agent architecture, thus exploiting the strengths...

Prague (2009)

Antonín Komenda, Gerhard Wickler

We present an approach to distributed planning and coordination architecture for dynamic non-deterministic multiactor mixed-initiative environment. The system provides flexible planning, replanning,...

Wickler et al. Simulation for Training in the I-X Framework Integrating Discrete Event and Process-Level Simulation for Flexible Training in the I-X Framework ABSTRACT (2009)

Gerhard Wickler, Stephen Potter, Austin Tate

The aim of this paper is to describe I-Sim, a simulation tool that is a fully integrated part of the underlying agent framework, I-X. I-Sim controls a discrete event simulator, based on the same...

FireGrid: An e-Infrastructure for Next-Generation Emergency Response Support FireGrid: An e-Infrastructure for Next-Generation Emergency Response Support (2009)

Liangxiu Han, Stephen Potter, George Beckett, Gavin Pringle, Sung-han Koo, Gerhard Wickler, ...

The FireGrid project aims to harness the potential of advanced forms of computation to support the response to large-scale emergencies (with an initial focus on the response to fires in the built...

Potter et al. Model-Based Query Systems for Emergency Response ABSTRACT Model-Based Query Systems for Emergency Response (2009)

Stephen Potter, Gerhard Wickler

In this paper we describe the approach adopted and experiences gained during a project to develop a general architecture that aims to harness advanced sensor, modelling and Grid technologies to...

Planning and Choosing: Augmenting HTN-Based Agents with Mental Attitudes ∗ (2009)

Gerhard Wickler, Stephen Potter, Austin Tate, Michal Pěchouček, Eduard Semsch

This paper describes a new agent framework that fuses an HTN planner, through its underlying conceptual model, with the mental attitudes of the BDI agent architecture, thus exploiting the strengths...

Abstract Information-Gathering: From Sensor Data to Decision Support in Three Simple Steps (2009)

Gerhard Wickler, Stephen Potter

In this paper we describe the information-gathering problem which can be characterized as transforming large amounts of data obtained from sensors into accurate, concise, timely and meaningful...

Using Simulation for Decision Support: Lessons Learned from FireGrid (2009)

Wickler, Gerhard, Beckett, George, Han, Liangxiu, Koo, Sung Han, Potter, Stephen, Pringle, Gavin, ...

This paper describes some of the lessons learned from the FireGrid project. It starts with a brief overview of the project. The discussion of the lessons learned that follows is intended for others...

Abstract Competence and Capability Assessment (2008)

Gerhard Wickler, Louise Pryor

This paper discusses the competence and capability assessment problems, the di erences between them, and a uni ed method to solve them. Competence can be assessed by exploiting meta-rules present in...

Capability Assessment in ucpop: Some Experiments in the Blocks World (2008)

Gerhard Wickler

This paper de nes and addresses the competence and capability assessment problem. A simple method based on the meta-knowledge available in a reasoning system is given that can be used to assess...

Incrementally Refined Acquaintance Model for Distributed Planning in a Semi-Trusted Environment (2008)

Michal Pěchouček, Austin Tate, Gerhard Wickler

This paper analyzes the distributed planning architecture proposed by Durfee (Durfee 1999) and discusses the properties of the suggested architecture in a peerto-peer, dynamic and semi-trusted...

Potter et al. I-X for Agent Coordination in e-Response Using I-X Process Panels as Intelligent To-Do Lists for Agent Coordination in Emergency Response ABSTRACT (2008)

Stephen Potter, Gerhard Wickler, Austin Tate

The aim of this paper is to describe the I-X system with its principal user interface, the I-X Process Panel, its underlying ontology, <I-N-C-A>, and how this panel can be used as an...

Wickler et al. I-X for Agent Coordination in e-Response Using I-X Process Panels as Intelligent To-Do Lists for Agent Coordination in Personnel Recovery ABSTRACT (2008)

Gerhard Wickler, Austin Tate, Stephen Potter

The aim of this paper is to describe the I-X system with its principal user interface, the I-X Process Panel, its underlying ontology, <I-N-C-A>, and how this panel can be used as an...

Model-Based Query Systems for Emergency Response (2008)

Potter, Stephen, Wickler, Gerhard

In this paper we describe the approach adopted and experiences gained during a project to develop a general architecture that aims to harness advanced sensor, modelling and Grid technologies to...

Using the Constraint Model as a Shared Representation of Intentions for Emergency Response (2006)

Wickler, Gerhard, Tate, Austin, Potter, Stephen

The aim of this paper is to describe the I-X system with its underlying representation: . The latter can be seen as a description of an agent’s intentions, which can be shared and communicated...

Using the Constraint Model as a Shared Representation of Intentions for Emergency Response (2006)

Wickler, Gerhard, Tate, Austin, Potter, Stephen

The aim of this paper is to describe the I-X system with its underlying representation: . The latter can be seen as a description of an agent’s intentions, which can be shared and communicated...

Using I-X Process Panels as Intelligent To-Do Lists for Agent Coordination in Emergency Response (2006)

Potter, Stephen, Tate, Austin, Wickler, Gerhard

The aim of this paper is to describe the I-X system with its principal user interface, the I-X Process Panel, its underlying ontology, , and how this panel can be used as an intelligent to-do list...

Using I-X Process Panels as Intelligent To-Do Lists for Agent Coordination in Emergency Response (2006)

Potter, Stephen, Tate, Austin, Wickler, Gerhard

The aim of this paper is to describe the I-X system with its principal user interface, the I-X Process Panel, its underlying ontology, , and how this panel can be used as an intelligent to-do list...

Using the <I-N-C-A> Constraint Model as a Shared Representation of Intentions for Emergency Response (2006)

Gerhard Wickler

The aim of this paper is to describe the I-X system with its underlying representation: <I-N-C-A>. The latter can be seen as a description of an agent’s intentions, which can be shared and...

Using i-x process panels as intelligent to-do lists for agent coordination in emergency response (2006)

Gerhard Wickler, Stephen Potter, Austin Tate

Abstract- The aim of this paper is to describe the I-X system with its principal user interface, the I-X Process Panel, its underlying ontology, <I-N-C-A>, and how this panel can be used as an...

Using i-x process panels as intelligent to-do lists for agent coordination in emergency response (2006)

Gerhard Wickler, Stephen Potter, Austin Tate

Abstract- The aim of this paper is to describe the I-X system with its principal user interface, the I-X Process Panel, its underlying ontology, <I-N-C-A>, and how this panel can be used as an...

Collaborative Operations for Personnel Recovery (2005)

Austin Tate, Jeff Dalton, Jussi Stader, Gerhard Wickler

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Capability representations for brokering: A survey (1998)

Gerhard Wickler, Austin Tate

In this article we review knowledge representation formalisms that lend themselves to the representation of capabilities of intelligent agents. The aim of representing capabilities is, of course,...