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AGENTS
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Ant-like missionaries and cannibals: synthetic pheromones for distributed motion control
Many applied problems in domains such as military operations, manufacturing, and logistics require that entities change location under certain constraints. These problems are trad...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner
AGENTS
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Frameworks for Reasoning about Agent Based Systems
This paper suggests formal frameworks that can be used as the basis for defining, reasoning about, and verifying properties of agent systems. The language, Little-JIL is graphical...
Leon J. Osterweil, Lori A. Clarke
AGENTS
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Mobile Agents for Distributed Processing
Penny Noy, Michael Schroeder
AGENTS
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Adaptive Trust and Co-operation: An Agent-Based Simulation Approach
This paper extends earlier work in the use of ‘Agent-based Computational Economics’ (ACE) for modelling the development of co-operation between firms. Inter-firm relations hav...
Bart Nooteboom, Tomas Klos, René J. Jorna
AGENTS
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Scalability of a Transactional Infrastructure for Multi-Agent Systems
Abstract. One of the reasons for attending to agent technology is the evergrowing complexity of information systems and the increasing difficulty to foresee and plan for all potent...
Khaled Nagi
AGENTS
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Verbal communication: using approximate sound propagation to design an inter-agents communication language
In this paper, we will present a method for generating conversations between human-like agents by proposing specific parameters for inter-agents messages with an approximation of...
Jean-Sébastien Monzani, Daniel Thalmann
AGENTS
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Experimental assessment of the effectiveness of synthetic personae for multi-modal e-retail applications
This paper details results of an experiment to empirically evaluate the effectiveness and user acceptability of human-like synthetic agents in a multi-modal electronic retail scen...
Helen McBreen, Paul Shade, Mervyn A. Jack, Peter J...
AGENTS
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Interactive pedagogical drama
This paper describes an agent-based approach to realizing interactive pedagogical drama. Characters choose their actions autonomously, while director and cinematographer agents ma...
Stacy Marsella, W. Lewis Johnson, Catherine LaBore
AGENTS
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Towards a fault-tolerant multi-agent system architecture
Multi-agent systems are prone to failures typical of any distributed system. Agents and resources may become unavailable due to machine crashes, communication breakdowns, process ...
Sanjeev Kumar, Philip R. Cohen
AGENTS
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Exchanging tacit community knowledge by talking-virtualized-egos
This paper describes a method of exchanging tacit community knowledge using talking-virtualized-egos. We aim at sharing tacit knowledge in a community, for this purpose, we propos...
Hidekazu Kubota, Toyoaki Nishida, Tomoko Koda