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CEEMAS
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Towards an Institutional Environment Using Norms for Contract Performance
Abstract. A strong research emphasis is being given towards regulating interoperable multi-agent environments through norms and institutions. We are concerned with environments in ...
Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Eugénio C. Oliveira
AIL
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Artificial institutions: a model of institutional reality for open multiagent systems
Software agents' ability to interact within different open systems, designed by different groups, presupposes an agreement on an unambiguous definition of a set of concepts, ...
Nicoletta Fornara, Francesco Viganò, Mario ...
IAT
2009
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Adaptive Deterrence Sanctions in a Normative Framework
Normative environments are used to regulate multiagent interactions. In business encounters, agents representing business entities make contracts including norms that prescribe wh...
Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Eugénio C. Oliveira
ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Gradient field-based task assignment in an AGV transportation system
Assigning tasks to agents is complex, especially in highly dynamic environments. Typical protocol-based approaches for task assignment such as Contract Net have proven their value...
Danny Weyns, Nelis Boucké, Tom Holvoet
WSC
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Applying a Cognitive Architecture to Control of Virtual Non-Player Characters
CHI Systems, under contract to the U. S. Army Research Institute, is developing an immersive training system, called Virtual Environment Cultural Training for Operational Readines...
Chris McCollum, Charles Barba, Thomas Santarelli, ...