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An event occurs when an object changes its state. Event based models of the world and their descriptions are useful in understanding and performing actions to produce desired changes in the world. In this paper, we identify the challenges in modelling policy descriptions using events and show how policies can be interpreted in terms of the underlying events. We demonstrate that event based models...
The business process model and notation BPMN standard is becoming increasingly popular for process descriptions and reasoning with processes. Several formal techniques have been proposed addressing its semantics, temporal aspects, and process constraints. In this paper, we present a characterization of the BPMN process execution using user intentions. User intentions refer to the user's mental dispositions...
This paper focuses on applying Q learning techniques in a home energy management agent where the agent learns to find the optimal sequence of turning off appliances so that the appliances with higher priority will not be switched off during peak demand period or power consumption management. The policy based home energy management determines the optimal policy at every instant dynamically by learning...
Interconnected network centric environment is governed by a complex web of regulatory standards across wide geographical boundaries. With increasing trend of globalization and e-governance initiatives sweeping across different industrial sectors the multi-national corporations are forced to conform to multiple government regulations demanded by numerous stakeholders comprising regulatory authorities,...
With today's unstoppable rise in technological progression, we have seen a growing abundance of consumer health monitoring products in the open-market. These devices allow patients to have their health signs monitored unobtrusively in their mobile environment. However, the uptake of these technologies is slow and there is a need for a new paradigm to support the cooperation of healthcare professionals...
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