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ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Behaviors that emerge from emotion and cognition: implementation and evaluation of a symbolic-connectionist architecture
This paper describes the implementation and evaluation of a framework for modeling emotions in complex, decision-making agents. Sponsored by U.S. Army Research Institute (ARI), th...
Amy E. Henninger, Randolph M. Jones, Eric Chown
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Tools and techniques for performance measurement of large distributed multiagent systems
Performance measurement of large distributed multiagent systems (MAS) offers challenges that must be addressed explicitly in the agent infrastructure. Performance data is widely d...
Aaron Helsinger, Richard Lazarus, William Wright, ...
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Strategies for the Increased Robustness of Ant-Based Clustering
This paper introduces a set of algorithmic modifications that improve the partitioning results obtained with ant-based clustering. Moreover, general parameter settings and a self-...
Julia Handl, Joshua D. Knowles, Marco Dorigo
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Evolving social rationality for MAS using "tags"
Endowing agents with “social rationality” [10, 12, 11] can aid overall efficiency in tasks where cooperation is beneficial to system level performance. However it is difficult...
David Hales, Bruce Edmonds
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Designing Self-Assembly for 2-Dimensional Building Blocks
In this paper we present a genetic algorithm-based approach towards designing self-assembling objects comprised of square smart blocks. Each edge of each block can have one of thr...
Ying Guo, Geoff Poulton, Philip Valencia, Geoff Ja...
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Coalition formation through motivation and trust
Cooperation is the fundamental underpinning of multi-agent systems, allowing agents to interact to achieve their goals. Where agents are self-interested, or potentially unreliable...
Nathan Griffiths, Michael Luck
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Optimizing information exchange in cooperative multi-agent systems
Decentralized control of a cooperative multi-agent system is the problem faced by multiple decision-makers that share a common set of objectives. The decision-makers may be robots...
Claudia V. Goldman, Shlomo Zilberstein
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Task allocation using a distributed market-based planning mechanism
Dani Goldberg, Vincent A. Cicirello, M. Bernardine...
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Optimal agendas for multi-issue negotiation
There are two ways of handling bilateral multi-issue negotiations – one is to negotiate all the issues together, and the other is to negotiate them one by one. The order in whic...
S. Shaheen Fatima, Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R....