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AAAI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Anytime Optimal Coalition Structure Generation
A key problem when forming effective coalitions of autonomous agents is determining the best groupings, or the optimal coalition structure, to select to achieve some goal. To this...
Talal Rahwan, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Viet Dung Dan...
AAAI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Acquiring Visibly Intelligent Behavior with Example-Guided Neuroevolution
Much of artificial intelligence research is focused on devising optimal solutions for challenging and well-defined but highly constrained problems. However, as we begin creating...
Bobby D. Bryant, Risto Miikkulainen
IAT
2009
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Integrating NLP with Reasoning about Actions for Autonomous Agents Communicating with Humans
—We present a first effort to integrate NLP with ASP for autonomous agents, especially service robots, communicating with humans. We implemented a prototype system and tested it...
Xiaoping Chen, Jiehui Jiang, Jianmin Ji, Guoqiang ...
COLT
1991
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
The Role of Learning in Autonomous Robots
Applications of learning to autonomous agents (simulated or real) have often been restricted to learning a mapping from perceived state of the world to the next action to take. Of...
Rodney A. Brooks
WDAG
2000
Springer
125views Algorithms» more  WDAG 2000»
13 years 8 months ago
Establishing Business Rules for Inter-Enterprise Electronic Commerce
Conventional mechanisms for electronic commerce provide strong means for securing transfer of funds, and for ensuring such things as authenticity and non-repudiation. But they gene...
Victoria Ungureanu, Naftaly H. Minsky
GECCO
2006
Springer
181views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
13 years 8 months ago
Designing safe, profitable automated stock trading agents using evolutionary algorithms
Trading rules are widely used by practitioners as an effective means to mechanize aspects of their reasoning about stock price trends. However, due to the simplicity of these rule...
Harish Subramanian, Subramanian Ramamoorthy, Peter...
EVOW
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A Connectionist Architecture for the Evolution of Rhythms
In this paper we propose the use of an interactive multi-agent system for the study of rhythm evolution. The aim of the model proposed here is to show to what extent new rhythms em...
João Magalhães Martins, Eduardo Reck...
CIA
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
The Distortion of Cardinal Preferences in Voting
The theoretical guarantees provided by voting have distinguished it as a prominent method of preference aggregation among autonomous agents. However, unlike humans, agents usually ...
Ariel D. Procaccia, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein
ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A Market-Pressure-Based Performance Evaluator for TAC-SCM
Abstract. This paper proposes a novel method to characterize the performance of autonomous agents in the Trading Agent Competition for Supply Chain Management (TAC-SCM). We create ...
Brett Borghetti, Eric Sodomka, Maria L. Gini, John...
AINA
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
An Access Control Model Based on Distributed Knowledge Management
The conceptual architecture of the access control system described here is based on automatic distributed acquisition and processing of knowledge about users and devices in comput...
Alexandr Seleznyov, Stephen Hailes