Commitment-modeled protocols enable flexible and robust interactions among agents. However, existing work has focused on features and capabilities of protocols without considerin...
Abstract. We revisit Gaussian Adaptation (GaA), a black-box optimizer for discrete and continuous problems that has been developed in the late 1960’s. This largely neglected sear...
We introduce MAGENTA’s commercial multi-agent systems technology, and illustrate its practical use by describing a field-tested application in the area of logistics/scheduling....
Jonathan Himoff, Petr Skobelev, Michael Wooldridge
—We propose a steepest descent method to compute optimal control parameters for balancing between multiple performance objectives in stateless stochastic scheduling, wherein the ...
Chris Y. T. Ma, David K. Y. Yau, Nung Kwan Yip, Na...
Tasks in a real-time application usually have several stringent timing, resource, and communication requirements. Designing a distributed computing system which can meet all these...