An argument that qualitative representations—symbolic representations that carve
continuous phenomena into meaningful units—are central to human cognition. In this book …

A longstanding challenge is to make intelligent agents reason more abstractly and farther
ahead; in other words, to think strategically. The difficulty is that traditional approaches to …

Design of a system starts with functional requirements and expected contexts of use. Early
design sketches create a topology of components that a designer expects can satisfy the …

In this system oriented paper we describe the architectural framework and information flow
model of a stochastic discrete event simulator for evaluating military operational plans. The …

Much existing work examining the ethical behaviors of robots does not consider the impact
and effects of longterm human-robot interactions. A robot teammate, collaborator or helper is …

The standard method used for verifying the behaviour of a dynamical system is simulation.
But simulation can check only a finite number of operating conditions and system …

Qualitative description of the movement of objects can be very important when there are
large quantity of data or incomplete information, such as in positioning technologies and …

Today's constructive combat simulations are not capable of automatically generating
realistic battle plans. A contributing cause for this is the lack of a fire support planning …

Power grid security is of great significance for social stability. In this paper, the relationship of
safety issues of power grid construction is analyzed. According to the association between …

Tactics comprise a middle ground of abstraction between primitive actions and strategies. In
this paper, we describe how an autonomous agent can use relatively general tactics as …