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ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Argumentation-Based Communication between Agents
One approach to agent communication is to insist that agents not only send messages, but support them with reasons why those messages are appropriate. This is argumentation-based c...
Simon Parsons, Peter McBurney
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A method for decentralized clustering in large multi-agent systems
This paper examines a method of clustering within a fully decentralized multi-agent system. Our goal is to group agents with similar objectives or data, as is done in traditional ...
Elth Ogston, Benno J. Overeinder, Maarten van Stee...
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Communicative acts and interaction protocols in a distributed information system
Mariusz Nowostawski, Daniel Carter, Stephen Cranef...
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Natural methods for robot task learning: instructive demonstrations, generalization and practice
Among humans, teaching various tasks is a complex process which relies on multiple means for interaction and learning, both on the part of the teacher and of the learner. Used tog...
Monica N. Nicolescu, Maja J. Mataric
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Can software agents influence human relations?: balance theory in agent-mediated communities
We sought to create a social embodied conversational agent to support group interactions, using ‘balance theory’ from social science research on human-human relations. We cond...
Hideyuki Nakanishi, Satoshi Nakazawa, Toru Ishida,...
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Role allocation and reallocation in multiagent teams: towards a practical analysis
Despite the success of the BDI approach to agent teamwork, initial role allocation (i.e. deciding which agents to allocate to key roles in the team) and role reallocation upon fai...
Ranjit Nair, Milind Tambe, Stacy Marsella
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Catalog of Biologically-Inspired Primitives for Engineering Self-Organization
Abstract. The Amorphous Computing project is aimed at developing programming methodologies for systems composed of vast numbers of locallyinteracting, identically-programmed agents...
Radhika Nagpal
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Scenario description for multi-agent simulation
Making it easier to design interactions between agents and humans is essential for realizing multi-agent simulations of social phenomena such as group dynamics. To realize large-s...
Yohei Murakami, Toru Ishida, Tomoyuki Kawasoe, Rei...
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Towards a motivation-based approach for evaluating goals
Traditional goal-oriented approaches to building intelligent agents only consider absolute satisfaction of goals. However, in continuous domains there may be many instances in whi...
Stephen J. Munroe, Michael Luck, Mark d'Inverno
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Modelling secure multiagent systems
Security plays an important role in the development of multiagent systems. However, a careful analysis of software development processes shows that the definition of security requ...
Haralambos Mouratidis, Paolo Giorgini, Gordon A. M...