: Software agents comprise a new area for research and soon will be embedded and ubiquitous in modern computing systems. In this formative phase, it is important to develop compreh...
Autonomy has always been conceived as one of the defining attributes of intelligent agents. While the past years have seen considerable progress regarding theoretical aspects of a...
The successful integration and acceptance of many multi-agent systems into daily lives crucially depends on the ability to develop effective policies for adjustable autonomy. Adju...
Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Milind Tambe, Pradeep Varakan...
This paper presents a model of autonomy called autonomy with regard to an attribute applicable to cognitive and not cognitive artificial agents. Three criteria (global / partial, ...
This paper takes the view that to be considered autonomous, a software agent must possess the means by which to manage its own motivations and so define new goals. Using the motiva...