The paper develops a contracting model where the principal frames the contract when the agent is unaware of some contingencies, yet is aware that she may be unaware. We call the c...
We control a population of interacting software agents. The agents have a strategy, and receive a payoff for executing that strategy. Unsuccessful agents become extinct. We investi...
Petroleum industry production systems are highly automatized. In this industry, all functions (e.g., planning, scheduling and maintenance) are automated and in order to remain comp...
In this paper, we describe the lessons we learned in developing AgentBuilder, a commercial system for rapidly creating agents that extract information from web sites. AgentBuilder...
The SIGNAL insurance companies have developed an expert system for the support of its customer sales service. It was introduced at the end of 1993 and is currently used by approxi...