AI
2004
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2004
Springer
We study coalitional games in which agents are each assumed to have a goal to be achieved, and where the characteristic property of a coalition is a set of choices, with each choi...
LOGCOM
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
Seeing To It That (STIT) logic is a logic of agency, proposed in the 1990s in the domain of philosophy of action. It is the logic of constructions of the form `agent a sees to it ...
ENTCS
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
Organizational models have been recently used in agent theory for modeling coordination in open systems and to ensure social order in multi-agent system applications. In this pape...
AAMAS
2007
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
2007
Springer
Protocols enable unambiguous, smooth interactions among agents. Commitments among agents are a powerful means of developing protocols. Commitments enable flexible execution of pro...
AAMAS
2008
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
2008
Springer
Multiagent systems have become popular over the last few years for building complex, adaptive systems in a distributed, heterogeneous setting. Multiagent systems tend to be more r...
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2010
Springer
In typical multiagent teamwork settings, the teammates are either programmed together, or are otherwise provided with standard communication languages and coordination protocols. ...
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2010
Springer
This paper proposes a combined mechanism for coordinating agents in timed normative multi-agent systems. Timing constraints in a multi-agent system make it possible to force actio...
PUK
2000
13 years 6 months ago
2000
Scheduling problems are usually treated within single plant environments or within companies with several production locations. Due to the globalization of markets companies can no...
ICMAS
2000
13 years 6 months ago
2000
This paper describes an analysis of benevolent agents in multiagent systems (MAS). We first present a definition and motivation for benevolence that is appropriate for MAS. We the...
ICMAS
2000
13 years 6 months ago
2000
We demonstrate how multiagent systems provide useful control techniques for modular self-reconfigurable (metamorphic) robots. Such robots consist of many modules that can move rel...