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MAAMAW
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Cooperative Plan Selection Through Trust
Cooperation plays a fundamental role in multi-agent systems in which individual agents must interact for the overall system to function effectively. However, cooperation inherently...
Nathan Griffiths, Michael Luck
AGENTS
2000
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A comparison of coordinated planning methods for cooperating rovers
This paper describes and evaluates three methods for coordinating multiple agents. These agents interact in two ways. First, they are able to work together to achieve a common poo...
Steve A. Chien, Anthony Barrett, Tara A. Estlin, G...
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
How to calm hyperactive agents
System performance in multi-agent resource allocation systems can often improve if individual agents reduce their activity. Agents in such systems need a way to modulate their ind...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, Robert S. Mat...
IAT
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Discovery of Emergent Natural Laws by Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems
This paper defines an approach to simulation of natural systems, inspired by complex systems theory. A complex natural system is modeled as a multi-agent simulation system, agents...
Henk Stolk, Kevin Gates, Jim Hanan
PROMAS
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
OMNI: Introducing Social Structure, Norms and Ontologies into Agent Organizations
In this paper, we propose a framework for modelling agent organizations, Omni, that allows the balance of global organizational requirements with the autonomy of individual agents....
Virginia Dignum, Javier Vázquez-Salceda, Fr...
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Universality in Multi-Agent Systems
Much research in multi-agent systems reflects the field’s origins in classical artificial intelligence, showing how various refinements to the internal reasoning of individual a...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, Robert Savit
IAT
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Modelling Multiagent Bayesian Networks with Inclusion Dependencies
Multiagent Bayesian networks (MABNs) are a powerful new framework for uncertainty management in a distributed environment. In a MABN, a collective joint probability distribution i...
Cory J. Butz
INFOSCALE
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Automated ontology evolution in a multi-agent system
This research addresses the formation of new concepts and their corresponding ontology in a multiagent system where individual autonomous agents try to learn new concepts by consu...
Mohsen Afsharchi, Behrouz H. Far
ESAW
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Normative Multi-Agent Organizations
Multi-agent systems are viewed as consisting of individual agents whose behaviors are regulated by organization artifacts. This abstract presents a programming language, which is d...
Mehdi Dastani
ATAL
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Dialogues that account for different perspectives in collaborative argumentation
It is often the case that agents within a system have distinct types of knowledge. Furthermore, whilst common goals may be agreed upon, the particular representations of the indiv...
Elizabeth Black, Katie Atkinson