5 papers
Self-Driving Cars and Driver Alertness
Nguyen H Tran, Abhaya C Nayak
Recent years have seen growing interest in the development of self-driving vehicles that promise (or threaten) to replace human drivers with intelligent software. However, current…
On Conforming and Conflicting Values
Kinzang Chhogyal, Abhaya Nayak, Aditya Ghose +2
Values are things that are important to us. Actions activate values - they either go against our values or they promote our values. Values themselves can either be conforming or co…
A Value-based Trust Assessment Model for Multi-agent Systems
Kinzang Chhogyal, Abhaya Nayak, Aditya Ghose +1
An agent's assessment of its trust in another agent is commonly taken to be a measure of the reliability/predictability of the latter's actions. It is based on the trustor's past o…
Maximizing Expected Impact in an Agent Reputation Network -- Technical Report
Gavin Rens, Abhaya Nayak, Thomas Meyer
Many multi-agent systems (MASs) are situated in stochastic environments. Some such systems that are based on the partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) do not take th…
A New Approach for Revising Logic Programs
Zhiqiang Zhuang, James Delgrande, Abhaya Nayak +1
Belief revision has been studied mainly with respect to background logics that are monotonic in character. In this paper we study belief revision when the underlying logic is non-m…