Social insects provide us with a powerful metaphor to create decentralized systems of simple interacting, and often mobile, agents. The emergent collective intelligence of social i...
Eric Bonabeau, Andrej Sobkowski, Guy Theraulaz, Je...
Scheduling problems are usually treated within single plant environments or within companies with several production locations. Due to the globalization of markets companies can no...
Prioritized sweeping is a model-based reinforcement learning method that attempts to focus an agent’s limited computational resources to achieve a good estimate of the value of ...
We consider the problem of representing plans for mixed-initiative planning, where several participants cooperate to develop plans. We claim that in such an environment, a crucial...
This paper introduces a partition of the possible forms of knowledge according to their rela tionship to the basic objective of an intelligent agent, namely to act successfully ...