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ICMAS
2000
14 years 10 months ago
Self-Organizing Manufacturing Control: An Industrial Application of Agent Technology
We present an auction-based approach to manufacturing control. Workpieces auction off their current task, while machines bid for tasks. When awarding a machine, a workpiece takes ...
Stefan Bussmann, Klaus Schild
PRIMA
2004
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Supporting Impromptu Coordination Using Automated Negotiation
We are concerned with forms of interaction in which multiple users, with differing agendas and interests, may realise opportunities for useful synchronisation of their activities. ...
Iyad Rahwan, Connor Graham, Liz Sonenberg
AAAI
2010
14 years 11 months ago
Biologically-Inspired Control for Multi-Agent Self-Adaptive Tasks
Decentralized agent groups typically require complex mechanisms to accomplish coordinated tasks. In contrast, biological systems can achieve intelligent group behaviors with each ...
Chih-Han Yu, Radhika Nagpal
CLIMA
2007
14 years 11 months ago
Plan-Coordination Mechanisms and the Price of Autonomy
Abstract. Task-based planning problems for multi-agent systems require multiple agents to find a joint plan for a constrained set of tasks. Typically, each agent receives a subset...
J. Renze Steenhuisen, Cees Witteveen, Yingqian Zha...
IVA
2005
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Integrating Social Skills in Task-Oriented 3D IVA
Abstract. This paper presents a set of mechanisms oriented to incorporate social information into the decision taking of task-oriented 3DIVA. The aim of this approach is to integra...
Francisco Grimaldo, Miguel Lozano, Fernando Barber...