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WSC
2000
13 years 5 months ago
Use of discrete event simulation to validate an agent based scheduling engine
This paper discusses the use of simulation in a new context. Most often QUEST is viewed as a stand-alone simulation tool to analyze and understand shop floor behavior. It has rare...
Shubhabrata Biswas, Sara Merchawi
AAAI
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Metacognition in Software Agents Using Classifier Systems
Software agents "living" and acting in a real world software environment, such as an operating system, a network, or a database system, can carry out many tasks for huma...
Zhaohua Zhang, Stan Franklin, Dipankar Dasgupta
ICAI
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Collaborative Agents for C2 Teamwork Simulation
– Existing team training software often requires that trainees be organized as physical teams and the members of the same team be trained at the same time. To demonstrate that te...
Dianxiang Xu, Michael S. Miller, Richard A. Volz, ...
AAAI
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Trust Representation and Aggregation in a Distributed Agent System
This paper considers a distributed system of software agents who cooperate in helping their users to find services, provided by different agents. The agents need to ensure that th...
Yonghong Wang, Munindar P. Singh
INFORMATIKTAGE
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Context-Dependent and Self-Responsible Migration of Software Agents in Heterogeneous Environments
: Software agents are often employed in distributed environments to cope with the various dynamical dimensions of such systems. Furthermore, the paradigm of agent-oriented software...
Dirk Bade
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
The conclusion of contracts by software agents in the eyes of the law
Faced with the ongoing evolution of software agents from mere passive tools to e-tailers acting autonomously for their human owners (principals), new legal challenges appear on th...
Tina Balke, Torsten Eymann
ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Software agents that learn through observation
In this paper, we present an architecture for software agents that enables them to learn vocabulary through the observation of each other bodies and actions. Besides sensors, effe...
Jaçanã Machado, Luís Miguel B...
AINA
2007
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Using Argumentative Agents to Manage Communities of Web Services
This paper presents a framework for specifying Web services communities. A Web service is an accessible application that humans, software agents, and other applications in general ...
Jamal Bentahar, Zakaria Maamar, Djamal Benslimane,...
CIKM
1994
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A Semantics Approach for KQML - A General Purpose Communication Language for Software Agents
We investigate the semantics for Knowledge Query Manipulation Language KQML and we propose a semantic framework for the language. KQML is a language and a protocol to support comm...
Yannis Labrou, Timothy W. Finin
BTLAB
1997
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A Real-Life Experiment in Creating an Agent Marketplace
Software agents help people with time consuming activities. One increasingly popular application for software agents is electronic commerce, namely having agents buy and sell good...
Anthony Chavez, Daniel Dreilinger, Robert H. Guttm...