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CIA
2000
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Auction-Based Agent Negotiation via Programmable Tuple Spaces
Auctions are proposed as a distributed negotiation mean, particularly useful in multiagent systems where both cooperative and self-interested agents compete for resources and serv...
Giacomo Cabri, Letizia Leonardi, Franco Zambonelli
CIA
2000
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Applying Agents to Bioinformatics in GeneWeaver
Recent years have seen dramatic and sustained growth in the amount of genomic data being generated, including in late 1999 the first complete sequence of a human chromosome. The c...
Kevin Bryson, Michael Luck, Mike Joy, David T. Jon...
CIA
2000
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
ICEBERG: Exploiting Context in Information Brokering Agents
The research reported in this paper has both a scientific and a commercial aim. The scientific interest is to explore the use of contexts in order to improve the quality of informa...
Catholijn M. Jonker, Arjen Vollebregt
CIA
2000
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Design of Collaborative Information Agents
Effective development of nontrivial systems of collaborative information agents requires that an in-depth analysis is made resulting in (1) specification of requirements at differe...
Catholijn M. Jonker, Matthias Klusch, Jan Treur
CIA
2000
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Social Mechanism of Reputation Management in Electronic Communities
Abstract. Trust is important wherever agents must interact. We consider the important case of interactions in electronic communities, where the agents assist and represent principa...
Bin Yu, Munindar P. Singh
CIA
2000
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Towards Information Agent Interoperability
Abstract. Currently, many kinds of information agents for di erent purposes exist. However, agents from di erent systems are still unable to cooperate, even if they accurately foll...
Stefan Haustein, Sascha Lüdecke
ATAL
2000
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Optimistic and Disjunctive Agent Design Problems
Abstract. The agent design problem is as follows: Given an environment, together with a specification of a task, is it possible to construct an agent that will guarantee to succes...
Michael Wooldridge, Paul E. Dunne
ATAL
2000
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
An Architectural Framework for Integrated Multiagent Planning, Reacting, and Learning
Abstract. Dyna is a single-agent architectural framework that integrates learning, planning, and reacting. Well known instantiations of Dyna are Dyna-AC and Dyna-Q. Here a multiage...
Gerhard Weiß
ATAL
2000
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Determining the Envelope of Emergent Agent Behaviour via Architectural Transformation
In this paper we propose a methodology to help analyse tendencies in MAS to complement those of simple inspection, Monte Carlo and syntactic proof. We suggest an architecture that ...
Oswaldo Terán, Bruce Edmonds, Steve Wallis
ATAL
2000
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Adjustable Autonomy: A Response
Milind Tambe, David V. Pynadath, Paul Scerri