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AAAI
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Trust Representation and Aggregation in a Distributed Agent System
This paper considers a distributed system of software agents who cooperate in helping their users to find services, provided by different agents. The agents need to ensure that th...
Yonghong Wang, Munindar P. Singh
COMPLEXITY
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Emergence is coupled to scope, not level
Since its application to systems, emergence has been explained in terms of levels of observation. This approach has led to confusion, contradiction, incoherence and at times mysti...
Alex J. Ryan
AI
1999
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Emergent Cooperative Goal-Satisfaction in Large Scale Automated-Agent Systems
Cooperation among autonomous agents has been discussed in the DAI community for several years. Papers about cooperation 6,45 , negotiation 33 , distributed planning 5 , and coalit...
Onn Shehory, Sarit Kraus, Osher Yadgar
BERTINORO
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Emergent Consensus in Decentralised Systems Using Collaborative Reinforcement Learning
Abstract. This paper describes the application of a decentralised coordination algorithm, called Collaborative Reinforcement Learning (CRL), to two different distributed system pr...
Jim Dowling, Raymond Cunningham, Anthony Harringto...
CJ
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
Internet Failures: an Emergent Sea of Complex Systems and Critical Design Errors?
Complex systems researchers have looked to the Internet as a possible source of interesting emergent behaviour. Indeed, some high profile failures, and some low level phenomena, m...
Jon Crowcroft