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ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Bargaining with Information
A negotiating agent engages in multi-issue bilateral negotiation in a dynamic information-rich environment. The agent strives to make informed decisions. The agent may assume that...
John K. Debenham
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Programming BOID-Plan Agents: Deliberating about Conflicts among Defeasible Mental Attitudes and Plans
paper we present an abstract agent programming language and its operational semantics which can be used to implement cognitive agents. This language consists of programming constr...
Mehdi Dastani, Leendert W. N. van der Torre
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A Theoretical Analysis of Multi-Agent Patrolling Strategies
Yann Chevaleyre, François Sempé, Geb...
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Managing Multi-Agent Coordination, Planning, and Scheduling
Most research about multi-agent coordination is concentrated at a high level, e.g., developing coordination interaction protocols to be imposed on agents. There has been less conc...
Wei Chen, Keith Decker
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
State-Space Reduction Techniques in Agent Verification
We have developed a set of tools to allow the use of model-checking techniques for the verification of systems directly implemented in an agent-oriented programming language. The ...
Rafael H. Bordini, Michael Fisher, Willem Visser, ...
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Automated Conversion and Simplification of Plan Representations
As planning agents grow more sophisticated, issues of plan representation arise alongside concerns with plan generation. Planning methods work over increasingly large and difficul...
Martin Allen, Shlomo Zilberstein
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Multi-Agent Approach for Peer-to-Peer Based Information Retrieval System
This paper develops and analyzes distributed search techniques for use in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network-based Information Retrieval (IR) system. In the absence of a centralized med...
Haizheng Zhang, W. Bruce Croft, Brian Neil Levine,...
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Fluid Dynamics Approach to Multi-Robot Chemical Plume Tracing
This paper presents a novel chemical plume tracing algorithm executed by a distributed network of mobile sensing agents that measure the ambient fluid velocity and chemical conce...
Dimitri Zarzhitsky, Diana F. Spears, William M. Sp...
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Protocol/Mechanism Design for Cooperation/Competition
Developing interaction rules/protocols among multiple agents is one of the central research topics in multi-agent systems. For cooperative agents, we need to develop protocols so ...
Makoto Yokoo
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Temptation and Contribution in C2C Transactions: Implications for Designing Reputation Management Systems
: A reputation management system can promote trust in transactions in an online consumer-to-consumer (C2C) market. We model a C2C market by employing an agent-based approach. To di...
Hitoshi Yamamoto, Kazunari Ishida, Toshizumi Ohta