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ICMAS
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Developing Formal Specifications to Coordinate Heterogeneous Autonomous Agents
We have been developing an approach for the distributed coordination of heterogeneous, autonomous agents. This approach takes as input (a) agent skeletons, giving compact descript...
Munindar P. Singh
AAAI
1998
13 years 6 months ago
The Dynamics of Reinforcement Learning in Cooperative Multiagent Systems
Reinforcement learning can provide a robust and natural means for agents to learn how to coordinate their action choices in multiagent systems. We examine some of the factors that...
Caroline Claus, Craig Boutilier
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
IAGO Project and Development of Compound Agents
The IAGO Project explores the question of whether a software model, in the form of a computational model of cognitive behavior, can contribute to better anticipation of asymmetric...
John E. Hiles
IIWAS
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Agent-based Problem Solving: The Ant Colonies Metaphor
In this paper the analogy between biological swarms and artificial multiagent systems is pointed out. As an example the steps required to model the artificial optimization techniq...
Stefan Wagner 0002, Michael Affenzeller, Ismail Kh...
FLAIRS
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Advantages of Brahms for Specifying and Implementing a Multiagent Human-Robotic Exploration System
We have developed a model-based, distributed architecture that integrates diverse components in a system designed for lunar and planetary surface operations: an astronaut’s spac...
William J. Clancey, Maarten Sierhuis, Charis Kaski...
CLIMA
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Distributed Algorithms for Dynamic Survivability of Multiagent Systems
Though multiagent systems (MASs) are being increasingly used, few methods exist to ensure survivability of MASs. All existing methods suffer from two flaws. First, a centralized su...
V. S. Subrahmanian, Sarit Kraus, Yingqian Zhang
DAGSTUHL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Normtypologies
In this extended abstract I describe some norm typolgies developed within sociololgy and social philosophy. Using these typologies we can determine the bounderies of the different...
Harko Verhagen
ECAI
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Coalition Structures in Weighted Voting Games
Abstract. Weighted voting games are a popular model of collaboration in multiagent systems. In such games, each agent has a weight (intuitively corresponding to resources he can co...
Edith Elkind, Georgios Chalkiadakis, Nicholas R. J...
AOSE
2006
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Building the Core Architecture of a NASA Multiagent System Product Line
Abstract. The field of Software Product Lines (SPL) emphasizes building a family of software products from which concrete products can be derived rapidly. This helps to reduce time...
Joaquín Peña, Michael G. Hinchey, An...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Exploiting organisational information for service coordination in multiagent systems
Service-Oriented Computing and Agent Technology are nowadays two of the most active research fields in distributed and open systems. However, when trying to bridge the two worlds,...
Alberto Fernández, Sascha Ossowski