Automated planning has been a continuous field of study since the 1960s, since the notion
of accomplishing a task using an ordered set of actions resonates with almost every known …

Technological advances in the robotic and ICT fields represent an effective solution to
address specific societal problems to support ageing and independent life. One of the key …

Abstract pddl4j (Planning Domain Description Library for Java) is an open source toolkit for
Java cross-platform developers meant (1) to provide state-of-the-art planners based on the …

Robotic ecologies are networks of heterogeneous robotic devices pervasively embedded in
everyday environments, where they cooperate to perform complex tasks. While their …

Robot ecologies are a growing paradigm in which one or several robotic systems are
integrated into a smart environment. Robotic ecologies hold great promises for elderly …

Driven with the objective of rendering robots as socio-communicative, there has been a
heightened interest towards researching techniques to endow robots with social skills …