Hierarchies are one of the most common structures used to understand and conceptualise
the world. Within the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) planning, which deals with the …

This editorial of the special issue “Representing, Processing, and Learning Preferences:
Theoretical and Practical Challenges” surveys past and ongoing research on preferences in …

Planning is motivated by acting. Most of the existing work on automated planning
underestimates the reasoning and deliberation needed for acting; it is instead biased …

Web service composition (WSC) is the task of combining a chain of connected single
services together to create a more complex and value-added composite service. Quality of …

Service composition is a technology capable of combing a collection of existing services
where many smaller services are coordinated together to form a larger one. Functionally …

The wide adoption of smart city solutions has proven that information and communication
technologies can effectively address many of the challenges in modern cities such as safety …

Hierarchies are the most common structure used to understand the world better. In galaxies,
for instance, multiple-star systems are organised in a hierarchical system. Then …

Abstract Cyber Physical Processes (CPPs) refer to a new generation of business processes
enacted in many application environments (eg, emergency management, smart …

This paper builds on recent work in the declarative design of dialogue agents and proposes
an exciting new tool–D3BA (Declarative Design for Digital Business Automation)–to …

Research in automated planning provides novel insights into service composition and
contributes towards the provision of automatic compositions which adapt to changing user …