Jose Tomas Palma-Mendez

Towards a teleo-social agent category

This paper presents a new category of social agents in multiple agent systems. This new class of agent, named teleo-social agents, is concerned with both maintenance and protection of the group central goal. The knowledge level of the teleo-social agent consists of a) the components, composition laws, behaviour laws and medium of the group, b) the social tasks the agent can apply to it, and c) a social balance-oriented control model. This type of agent is introduced by referring to its use in simulation of development projects.

A Planning under Uncertainty Model

In classical planning, actions are assumed to be deterministic, the initial state is known and the goal is defined by a set of state facts, and the solution consists of a sequence of actions that leads the system from the initial state to the goal state. However, most practical problems, especially in non observable and uncertain contexts, do not satisfy these requirements of complete and deterministic information. The main goal of this work is to develop a generic planning under uncertainty model at the knowledge level enabling plan viability evaluation so that the most possible, effective, and complete plan can be determined. The proposed model in this work is presented at different levels of analysis: meta ontological, ontological, epistemological and logical levels, and applied to the post and ex ante approaches. The planning task is composed of a set of planning subtasks: plan generation, plan prevention, plan support, plan correction, and plan replacement.