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ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Synchronous versus asynchronous collaboration in situated multi-agent systems
According to the taxonomy for agent activity, proposed by V. Parunak, a collaboration is an interaction between agents of a multi-agent system (MAS) whereby the agents explicitly ...
Danny Weyns, Tom Holvoet
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Capturing agent autonomy in roles and XML
A key question in the field of agent-oriented software engineering is how the kind and extent of autonomy owned by computational agents can be appropriately captured. As long as ...
Gerhard Weiß, Michael Rovatsos, Matthias Nic...
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
I am Autonomous, You are Autonomous
Autonomy is regarded as a crucial notion in multi-agent systems and several researchers have tried to identify what are the agent's parts that give it an autonomous character....
Hans Weigand, Virginia Dignum
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Recommender systems: a market-based design
Recommender systems have been widely advocated as a way of coping with the problem of information overload for knowledge workers. Given this, multiple recommendation methods have ...
Yan Zheng Wei, Luc Moreau, Nicholas R. Jennings
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Towards deception in agents
We have implemented a test-bed with agents who collaborate and communicate, potentially with deceptive information. Agents range from benevolent to selfish. They also have differi...
Derrick Ward, Henry Hexmoor
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Commitments and causality for multiagent design
This paper unifies two recent strands of research in multiagent system design. One, commitments are widely recognized as capturing important aspects of interactions among agents,...
Feng Wan, Munindar P. Singh
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A key-based coordination algorithm for dynamic readiness and repair service coordination
This paper describes an agent application for the coordination of aircraft repair, refit, refuel, and rearm teams in a dynamic setting. The paper also presents a new algorithm fo...
Thomas Wagner, Valerie Guralnik, John Phelps
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
MONAD: a flexible architecture for multi-agent control
Research in multi-agent systems has led to the development of many multi-agent control architectures. However, we believe that there is currently no known optimal structure for mu...
Thuc Vu, Jared Go, Gal A. Kaminka, Manuela M. Velo...
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A principled study of the design tradeoffs for autonomous trading agents
In this paper we present a methodology for deciding the bidding strategy of agents participating in a significant number of simultaneous auctions, when finding an analytical sol...
Ioannis A. Vetsikas, Bart Selman
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Expressive global protocols via logic-based electronic institutions
Communication is the key feature of Multi-agent Systems. The interactions among components of a system may take many distinct forms of increasing complexity such as in auctions, n...
Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos