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Cognitive Agent Planning with Attention Spanning – A Preliminary

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Multi-agent planning is presented as a basis to attention management. Viewing our agent modular approach as the augmented approach to intelligent multiagent systems planning, the basic foundations to our preceding project become explorable for emerging areas like optimization of augmented knowledge spaces, ubiquitous computing and interface design with attentional agent spanning using SVMs. Index Terms-cognitive multi-agent planning, optimization, knowledge representation, SVM

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