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GECCO
2010
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Evolution of division of labor in genetically homogenous groups
Within nature, the success of many organisms, including certain species of insects, mammals, slime molds, and bacteria, is attributed to their performance of division of labor, wh...
Heather Goldsby, David B. Knoester, Charles Ofria
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Resource allocation among agents with preferences induced by factored MDPs
Distributing scarce resources among agents in a way that maximizes the social welfare of the group is a computationally hard problem when the value of a resource bundle is not lin...
Dmitri A. Dolgov, Edmund H. Durfee
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Suspending and resuming tasks in BDI agents
Intelligent agents designed to work in complex, dynamic environments must respond robustly and flexibly to environmental and circumstantial changes. An agent must be capable of de...
John Thangarajah, James Harland, David N. Morley, ...
PUK
2001
13 years 10 months ago
Web-based Commerce of Complex Products and Services with Multiple Suppliers
The sales of customisable products and services over the internet is a challenging task within the area of electronic commerce. In this chapter we will present a case study which s...
Liliana Ardissono, Alexander Felfernig, Gerhard Fr...
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Aggregation-mediated collective perception and action in a group of miniature robots
We introduce a novel case study in which a group of miniaturized robots screen an environment for undesirable agents, and destroy them. Because miniaturized robots are usually end...
Grégory Mermoud, Loïc Matthey, William...