Peter Novák / Publications

Here is the list of my published works. My official DBLP record lists the most important publications of mine. The DBLP entry list also includes some of the relevant BiBTeX entries.

Journal articles

2009
Jürgen Dix, Tristan Behrens, Michael Köster and Peter Novák:
Agenten als Goldgräber und Cowboys
Agents as Gold Miners and Cowboys (in German)

Series/In: KI - Zeitschrift Künstliche Intelligenz, Nr. 2/09, pg. 50-53
Böttcher IT Verlag/2009
- Journal issue website -
- on-line excerpt -

Peer-reviewed conference papers

2009
Peter Novák:
Probabilistic Behavioural State Machines
L. Braubach, J.P. Briot and J. Thangarajah (ed.)
Series/In: Proceedings of The Seventh International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems ProMAS'09, AAMAS 2009 collocated workshop
2009, May
- slides -
Michael Köster, Peter Novák, David Mainzer and Bernd Fuhrmann:
Two Case Studies for Jazzyk BSM
F. Dignum, J. Bradshaw, B. Silverman and W. van Doesburg (ed.)
Series/In: Proceedings of Agents for Games and Simulations, AGS 2009, AAMAS 2009 collocated workshop
2009, May
Peter Novák and Wojciech Jamroga:
Code Patterns for Agent Oriented Programming
Series/In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems AAMAS 2009, (also presented at the 21st Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence, BNAIC 2009)
IFAAMAS/2009, May
© IFAAMAS 2009. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of IFAAMAS for your personal use. Not for redistribution.
- slides - - poster
2008
Tristan M. Behrens, Mehdi Dastani, Jürgen Dix and Peter Novák:
Agent Contest Competition: 4th Edition
Koen V. Hindriks, Alexander Pokahr and Sebastian Sardina (ed.)
Series/In: Postproceedings of Sixth International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems, ProMAS'08, LNAI
© Springer Verlag/2008
Koen V. Hindriks and Peter Novák:
Compiling GOAL Agent Programs into Jazzyk Behavioural State Machines
R. Bergmann, G. Lindermann, S. Kirn and M. Pěchouček (ed.)
Series/In: Proceedings of the Sixth German Conference on Multi-Agent system Technologies, MATES 2008, LNCS 5244, Multiagent System Technologies, pg. 86-98
ISBN: 978-3-540-87804-9
© Springer Verlag Berlin/Heidelberg/2008, September 23 - 26 in Kaiserslautern, Germany
- doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-87805-6_9 -
Peter Novák and Michael Köster:
Designing Goal-Oriented Reactive Behaviours
Yves Lespérance, Gerhard Lakemeyer, Fiora Pirri and Jan Peters (ed.)
Series/In: Proceedings of the 6th International Cognitive Robotics Workshop, CogRob 2008, ECAI 2008 collocated workshop
ISBN: 978-960-6843-09-9
The 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2008/2008, July 21-22 in Patras, Greece
- slides -
Peter Novák:
Cognitive agents with non-monotonic reasoning (thesis extended abstract)
Gal Kaminka, Yohei Murakami (ed.)
AAMAS 2008 Doctoral Mentoring Program/2008, May
© IFAAMAS 2008. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of IFAAMAS for your personal use. Not for redistribution.
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Mehdi Dastani, Koen V. Hindriks, Peter Novák and Nick A.M. Tinnemeier:
Combining Multiple Knowledge Representation Technologies into Agent Programming Languages
Series/In: 6th International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies, DALT 2008
2008, May in Estoril, Portugal
Peter Novák:
Jazzyk: A programming language for hybrid agents with heterogeneous knowledge representations
Series/In: Proceedings of Sixth International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems, ProMAS'08
2008, May in Estoril, Portugal
- slides -
Peter Novák:
Behavioural State Machines: Programming Modular Agents
Marcello Balduccini and Chitta Baral (ed.)
Series/In: Papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium, Technical Report SS-08-02: Architectures for Intelligent Theory-Based Agents, AITA'08
ISBN: 978-1-57735-358-4
AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California, USA/2008, March 26-28
- slides -
2007
Mehdi Dastani, Jürgen Dix, Peter Novák:
Agent Contest Competition - 3rd edition
Series/In: Proceedings of Fifth international Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems, ProMAS'07, LNAI 4908
ISBN: 978-3-540-79042-6
© Springer Verlag/2007
-preprint published in Department of Informatics, Clausthal University of Technology TR series IfI-07-15-
- doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-79043-3 -
Peter Novák, Jürgen Dix:
Adding structure to agent programming languages
Series/In: Proceedings of Fifth international Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems, ProMAS'07, LNAI 4908
ISBN: 978-3-540-79042-6
© Springer Verlag/2007, May
-preprint published in Department of Informatics, Clausthal University of Technology TR series IfI-06-12-
- doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-79043-3 - - slides -
2006
Mehdi Dastani, Jürgen Dix, Peter Novák:
The Second Contest on Multi-Agent Systems based on Computational Logic
Katsumi Inoue, Ken Satoh, Francesca Toni (ed.)
Series/In: Proceedings of Seventh Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA VII), LNAI 4371/2007
ISBN: 978-3-540-69618-6
© Springer Berlin/Heidelberg/2006
-preprint published in Department of Informatics, Clausthal University of Technology TR series IfI-06-13-
-doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-69619-3_15-
Peter Novák, Jürgen Dix:
Modular BDI Architecture
Series/In: Proceedings of Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems AAMAS'06, Future University, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan, pg. 1009-1016
ISBN: 1-59593-303-4
Association for Computing Machinery/2006, May
-doi:10.1145/1160633.1160814- -poster- -slides-
© ACM, 2006. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution.
2005
Mehdi Dastani, Jürgen Dix and Peter Novák:
The First Contest on Multi-agent Systems Based on Computational Logic
Francesca Tonni and Paolo Torroni (ed.)
Series/In: Proceedings of 6th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA VI), LNCS 3900/2006, pages 373-384
ISBN: 978-3-540-33996-0
© Springer-Verlag/2005
-doi:10.1007/11750734-

Theses, technical reports

2009
Peter Novák:
Behavioural State Machines: Agent Programming and Engineering
Series/In: Doctoral dissertation (Dr. rer. nat.)
Paperback, Faculty of Natural and Materials Science, Clausthal University of Technology/2009, October
-online e-dissertation - Library of the Clausthal University of technology -
2008
Tristan M. Behrens, Jürgen Dix, Mehdi Dastani, Michael Köster, and Peter Novák:
Technical Foundations of the Agent Contest 2008
Series/In: IfI Technical Reports, TR: IfI-08-05
Department of Informatics, Clausthal University of Technology, Clausthal-Zellerfeld/2008, December
-on-line version-
Peter Novák:
Communication platform for open heterogeneous MASs
Series/In: IfI Technical Reports, TR: IfI-08-13
Department of Informatics, Clausthal University of Technology, Clausthal-Zellerfeld/2008, December
-on-line version-
2007
Peter Novák:
An open agent architecture: Fundamentals (revised)
Series/In: IfI technical reports, TR: IfI-07-10 (revised - February 2008)
Department of Informatics, Clausthal University of Technology, Clausthal-Zellerfeld/2007, November
-on-line version-
2005
Peter Novák:
Stable Model Semantics Algorithm: Approach Based on Relation of Blocking Between Sets of Defaults
Wojtek Jamroga et. al. (ed.)
Series/In: IfI Technical reports, TR: IfI-05-04
IfI, Clausthal University of Technology, Clausthal-Zellerfeld/2005
-on-line version-
2002
Peter Novák:
Approximative Logic Programming for Data Mining
Series/In: Diploma thesis (MSc.)
Hardcover, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics/2002

Miscelaneous texts, manuscripts, slides, etc.

2009
Peter Novák:
Behavioural State Machines: Framework for programming cognitive agents
Series/In: Department seminar serie
Agent Technology Group, Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague/2009, February 19th
(invited talk)
2008
Peter Novák:
Programovanie kognitívnych agentov /
Programming of cognitive agents (in Slovak)

Series/In: Týžden absoloventov Matfyzu/ FMFI UK alumni workshop, TAM 2008
2008, December 19th
(invited wokshop presentation)
Peter Novák:
Towards pragmatics of rule-based agent programming language(s)
R. Bordini, M. Dastani, J. Dix, A. E. Fallah-Segrouchni (ed.)
Series/In: Dagstuhl Seminar #08361, Programming Multi-Agent Systems
Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik GmbH, Germany/2008, September
(invited workshop talk)
Tristan M. Behrens, Mehdi Dastani, Jürgen Dix and Peter Novák:
MASSim: Multi-Agent Systems Simulation Platform
Series/In: Begehung des Simulationswissenschaftlichen Zentrums, Clausthal University of Technology
poster/2008, June
Peter Novák, Martin Baláž and Jürgen Dix:
Embedding Defeasible Argumentation in Answer Set Programming
2008, September
Important note: The paper contains several errors, yet the bulk is alright and can serve as a source of inspiration to others.
The technical part, i.e. the transformation of DeLP to ASP works, however the introductory argumentation frameworks theory contains serious flaws. To be rewritten in the future!
Peter Novák, David Mainzer, Michael Köster, Bernd Fuhrmann:
Jazzbot: A non-monotonically reasoning bot in a simulated 3D environment
manuscript/2008, January
2007
Peter Novák:
Programming framework for cognitive agents
Series/In: Diplomanten & Doktoranden seminar
IfI Clausthal University of Technology/2007, February 22th
(seminar talk)
Peter Novák:
Agenty a nemotónne usudzovanie /
Agents and nonmonotonic reasoning (in Slovak)

Series/In: Intelligence not only as a computation, seminar in honour of Ján Šefránek
FMFI UK, Bratislava/2007, April 23th
(workshop talk)
2006
Peter Novák:
Modular agent programming language
R. Bordini, M. Dastani, J.-J. Meyer (ed.)
Series/In: Dagstuhl seminar #06261, Foundations and Practice of Programming Multi-Agent Systems
Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik GmbH, Germany/2006, June 27th
(invited workshop talk)
Peter Novák:
Programovacie jazyky pre vývoj inteligentných agentov /
Programming languages for development of intelligent BDI agents (in Slovak)

Series/In: AI Seminar talk (slides)
Department of Applied Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava/2006, October 03
2003
Peter Novák:
Manuál na štúdium umelej inteligencie na FMFI UK /
Study manual for specialization of Artificial Intelligence at FMFI UK (in Slovak)

2003/December
Peter Novák:
FAQ: Ako písať diplomovú prácu - umelá inteligencia na FMFI UK /
FAQ: How to write a diploma thesis in Artificial Intelligence at FMFI UK (in Slovak)

2003/December 8th