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ATAL
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Exploring Congruence Between Organizational Structure and Task Performance: A Simulation Approach
Reorganization of the structure of an organization is a crucial issue in multi-agent systems that operate in an open, dynamic environment. Ideally, autonomous agents must be able t...
Frank Dignum, Virginia Dignum, Liz Sonenberg
ANOR
2007
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13 years 6 months ago
Distributed personnel scheduling - negotiation among scheduling agents
This paper introduces a model for Distributed Employee Timetabling Problems (DisETPs) and proposes a general architecture for solving DisETPs by using a Multi Agent System (MAS) pa...
Eliezer Kaplansky, Amnon Meisels
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Max-sum decentralised coordination for sensor systems
A key challenge for the successful deployment of systems consisting of multiple autonomous networked sensors is the development of decentralised mechanisms to coordinate the activ...
W. T. Luke Teacy, Alessandro Farinelli, N. J. Grab...
DAGSTUHL
2003
13 years 7 months ago
The Autotelic Principle
— The paper focuses on the problem how a community of distributed agents may autonomously invent and coordinate lexicons and grammars. Although our earlier experiments have shown...
Luc Steels
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Brain Meets Brawn: Why Grid and Agents Need Each Other
The Grid and agent communities both develop concepts and mechanisms for open distributed systems, albeit from different perspectives. The Grid community has historically focused o...
Ian T. Foster, Nicholas R. Jennings, Carl Kesselma...