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ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Agent-Based Peer-to-Peer Service Networks: A Study of Effectiveness and Structure Evolution
We study peer-to-peer service networks consisting of autonomous agents who seek and provide services. To fulfill its local needs, an agent attempts to discover and select informa...
Yathiraj B. Udupi, Pinar Yolum, Munindar P. Singh
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Time-Extended Policies in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Many algorithms such as Q-learning successfully address reinforcement learning in single-agent multi-time-step problems. In addition there are methods that address reinforcement l...
Kagan Tumer, Adrian K. Agogino
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
The Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment Onboard the EO-1 Spacecraft
The Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment (ASE), currently flying onboard the Earth Observing-1 (EO1) spacecraft, integrates several autonomy software technologies enabling autonomou...
Daniel Tran, Steve A. Chien, Rob Sherwood, Rebecca...
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Interac-DEC-MDP: Towards the Use of Interactions in DEC-MDP
Vincent Thomas, Christine Bourjot, Vincent Chevrie...
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Multi-Agent Systems Approach to Autonomic Computing
The goal of autonomic computing is to create computing systems capable of managing themselves to a far greater extent than they do today. This paper presents Unity, a decentralize...
Gerald Tesauro, David M. Chess, William E. Walsh, ...
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Strategy/False-name Proof Protocols for Combinatorial Multi-Attribute Procurement Auction
In this paper, we investigate a model of a combinatorial, procurement multi-attribute auction, in which each sales item is defined by several attributes called quality, the buyer...
Takayuki Suyama, Makoto Yokoo
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Physicomimetics for Mobile Robot Formations
In prior work we established how physicomimetics can be used to self-organize hexagonal and square lattice formations of mobile robots. In this paper we extend the framework to mo...
William M. Spears, Rodney Heil, Diana F. Spears, D...
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
QueryTracker: An Agent for Tracking Persistent Information Needs
Most people have long term information interests. Current Web search engines satisfy immediate information needs. Specific sites support tracking of long term interests. We prese...
Gabriel Somlo, Adele E. Howe
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Adaptive, Confidence-Based Multiagent Negotiation Strategy
We propose an adaptive 1-to-many negotiation strategy for multiagent coalition formation in dynamic, uncertain, real-time, and noisy environments. Our strategy focuses on multi-is...
Leen-Kiat Soh, Xin Li
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Towards the Application of Argumentation-Based Dialogues for Education
This paper describes our work constructing a generalized framework for modeling multi agent interactions in education-related applications. Historically, interactive learning syst...
Elizabeth Sklar, Simon Parsons