Table of contents : Behavioural Virtual Agents....Pages 1-11 Logic-Based Knowledge Representation....Pages 13-41 A Taxonomy of Theorem-Proving Strategies....Pages 43-84 An Overview of Planning Under Uncertainty....Pages 85-110 Knowledge Representation for Stochastic Decision Processes....Pages 111-152 A Survey of Automated Deduction....Pages 153-174 The World Wide Web as a Place for Agents....Pages 175-193 Lifelike Pedagogical Agents and Affective Computing: An Exploratory Synthesis....Pages 195-211 OBDD-based Universal Planning: Specifying and Solving Planning Problems for Synchronized Agents in Non-deterministic Domains....Pages 213-248 Combining Artificial Intelligence and Databases for Data Integration....Pages 249-268 “Underwater Love” Building Tristão and Isolda’s Personalities....Pages 269-296 An Oz-Centric Review of Interactive Drama and Believable Agents....Pages 297-328 Robots with the Best of Intentions....Pages 329-338 Agent-Based Project Management....Pages 339-363 A System for Defeasible Argumentation, with Defeasible Priorities....Pages 365-379 Handling Uncertainty in Control of Autonomous Robots....Pages 381-407 The Event Calculus Explained....Pages 409-430 Towards a Logic Programming Infrastructure for Internet Programming....Pages 431-456 Towards Autonomous, Perceptive, and Intelligent Virtual Actors....Pages 457-471 Temporally Invariant Junction Tree for Inference in Dynamic Bayesian Network....Pages 473-487