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AAAI
2000
15 years 5 months ago
Making Rational Decisions Using Adaptive Utility Elicitation
Rational decision making requires full knowledge of the utility function of the person affected by the decisions. However, in many cases, the task of acquiring such knowledge is n...
Urszula Chajewska, Daphne Koller, Ronald Parr
IFIPTCS
2000
15 years 7 months ago
Hierarchical State Machines
Hierarchical state machines are finite state machines whose states themselves can be other machines. In spite of their popularity in many modeling tools for software design, very l...
Mihalis Yannakakis
ATAL
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Letting loose a SPIDER on a network of POMDPs: generating quality guaranteed policies
Distributed Partially Observable Markov Decision Problems (Distributed POMDPs) are a popular approach for modeling multi-agent systems acting in uncertain domains. Given the signi...
Pradeep Varakantham, Janusz Marecki, Yuichi Yabu, ...
HOLOMAS
2003
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Integration of Automation Resources in Holonic Manufacturing Applications
Holonic and agent-based paradigms are very suitable in the development of distributed manufacturing control systems, taking advantage of their modularity, decentralization, and abi...
Paulo Leitão, Raymond Boissier, Francisco C...
ICSOC
2004
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Toward autonomic web services trust and selection
Emerging Web services standards enable the development of large-scale applications in open environments. In particular, they enable services to be dynamically bound. However, curr...
E. Michael Maximilien, Munindar P. Singh