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ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Mitigating catastrophic failure at intersections of autonomous vehicles
Fully autonomous vehicles promise enormous gains in safety, efficiency, and economy. Before such gains can be realized, safety and reliability concerns must be addressed. We have ...
Kurt M. Dresner, Peter Stone
ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Influence of social relationships on multiagent persuasion
Life-like agents have the potential to make e-shopping sites on the Web more attractive and persuasive; our interest is to determine how multiple life-like agents should behave as...
Katsunori Kadowaki, Kazuki Kobayashi, Yasuhiko Kit...
ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Towards agents participating in realistic multi-unit sealed-bid auctions
When autonomous agents decide on their bidding strategies in real world auctions, they have a number of concerns that go beyond the models that are normally analyzed in traditiona...
Ioannis A. Vetsikas, Nicholas R. Jennings
ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Learning task-specific trust decisions
We study the problem of agents locating other agents that are both capable and willing to help complete assigned tasks. An agent incurs a fixed cost for each help request it sends...
Ikpeme Erete, Erin Ferguson, Sandip Sen
ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Trading off solution cost for smaller runtime in DCOP search algorithms
Distributed Constraint Optimization (DCOP) is a key technique for solving multiagent coordination problems. Unfortunately, finding minimal-cost DCOP solutions is NP-hard. We there...
William Yeoh, Sven Koenig, Xiaoxun Sun