Effective norms, emerging from sustained individual interactions over time, can complement societal rules and significantly enhance performance of individual agents and agent soci...
There are many planning applications that require an agent to coordinate its activities with processes that change continuously over time. Several proposals have been made for com...
This paper describes an algorithm, called CQ-learning, which learns to adapt the state representation for multi-agent systems in order to coordinate with other agents. We propose ...
An ever-growing infrastructure, including existing and newly built power plants, as well as a rising environmental awareness in society call for inspection and maintenance systems...
Agent theories and agent programs are two very different styles of specification of agent behavior. The former are declarative in nature, while the latter have an imperative fl...