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IJCAI
1993
13 years 7 months ago
A Collaboration Mechanism on Positive Interactions in Multi-agent Environments
In multi-agent environments where agents independently generate and execute plans to satisfy their goals, the resulting plans may sometimes overlap. In this paper, we propose a co...
Kei Matsubayashi, Mario Tokoro
ROMAN
2007
IEEE
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14 years 15 hour ago
Using Mixed Reality Agents as Social Interfaces for Robots
—Endowing robots with a social interface is often costly and difficult. Virtual characters on the other hand are comparatively cheap and well equipped but suffer from other diffi...
Mauro Dragone, Thomas Holz, Gregory M. P. O'Hare
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Learning task-specific trust decisions
We study the problem of agents locating other agents that are both capable and willing to help complete assigned tasks. An agent incurs a fixed cost for each help request it sends...
Ikpeme Erete, Erin Ferguson, Sandip Sen
IPL
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
New efficiency results for makespan cost sharing
In the context of scheduling, we study social cost efficiency for a cost-sharing problem in which the service provider's cost is determined by the makespan of the served agen...
Yvonne Bleischwitz, Florian Schoppmann
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Social norm emergence in virtual agent societies
The advent of virtual environments such as SecondLife call for a distributed approach for norm emergence and spreading. In open virtual environments, monitoring various interactin...
Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, Maryam Purvis, Martin...