Edinburgh Research Archive

This thesis is concerned with the ad hoc coordination problem. Therein, the goal is to design an autonomous agent which can achieve high flexibility and efficiency in a multiagent system that admits no prior coordination ...

Every day billions of images are uploaded to the web. To process images at such a large scale it is important to build automatic image understanding systems. An important step towards understanding the content of the ...

In a celebrated essay on the new electronic media, Marshall McLuhan wrote in 1962:

Next-generation wireless cellular networks are morphing into a massive Internet of Things (IoT) environment that integrates a heterogeneous mix of wireless-enabled devices such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and ...

Methods for learning optimal policies often assume that the way the domain is conceptualised— the possible states and relevant actions that are needed to solve one’s decision problem—is known in advance and does not ...

In the last decades, many advances have been made in intelligent planning systems. Significant improvements related to core problems, providing faster search algorithms and shortest plans have been proposed. However, there ...

Multiagent systems offer a design paradigm used to conceptualise and implement systems composed of autonomous agents. Autonomy facilitates proactive independent behaviour yet in practice agents are constrained in order ...

An important class of problems is related to performing activities, and the planning of future activity. The “doing of things” is at the heart of human endeavour. The WWW has primarily concentrated to date on information ...

I-X is a research programme with a number of different aspects intended to create a well-founded approach to allow humans and computer systems to cooperate in the creation or modification of some product or products such ...

The use of planning assistant agents is an appropriate option to provide support for members of a coalition. Planning agents can extend the human abilities and be customised to attend different kinds of activities. However, ...