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2003
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Minimizing communication cost in a distributed Bayesian network using a decentralized MDP
In complex distributed applications, a problem is often decomposed into a set of subproblems that are distributed to multiple agents. We formulate this class of problems with a tw...
Jiaying Shen, Victor R. Lesser, Norman Carver
ATAL
2003
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Democracy in open agent systems
What sort of democracies should open agent societies be? We present three normative models of democracy from political philosophy and consider their relevance for the engineering o...
Peter McBurney, Simon Parsons
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ATAL
2003
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
An exploration of bugs and debugging in multi-agent systems
Debugging multi-agent systems, which are concurrent, distributed, and consist of complex components, is difficult, yet crucial. In earlier work we have proposed mechanisms whereby...
David Poutakidis, Lin Padgham, Michael Winikoff
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ATAL
2003
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Deriving individual obligations from collective obligations
A collective obligation is an obligation directed to a group of agents so that the group, as a whole, is obliged to achieve a given task. The problem investigated here is the impac...
Laurence Cholvy, Christophe Garion
ATAL
2003
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Social navigation: modeling, simulation, and experimentation
The term social navigation refers to the process of seeking social interaction as a source of navigational support. In this paper we present a computational model of social naviga...
Mark O. Riedl, Robert St. Amant