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ICAI
2009
13 years 7 months ago
The Utility of Affect in the Selection of Actions and Goals Under Real-World Constraints
We present a novel affective goal selection mechanism for decision-making in agents with limited computational resources (e.g., such as robots operating under real-time constraint...
Paul W. Schermerhorn, Matthias Scheutz
CDC
2010
IEEE
145views Control Systems» more  CDC 2010»
13 years 4 months ago
Construction of Lyapunov functions for piecewise-deterministic Markov processes
The purpose of this contribution is twofold: 1) to present for the first time a Lyapunov function that proves exponential ergodicity of a process studied by the authors in [1], whe...
Alexandre R. Mesquita, João Pedro Hespanha
ICAIL
2003
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Positive and Negative Expectations and the Deontic Nature of Social Conventions
The general goal of the paper is to show the normative/deontic nature of conventions. Conventions are traditionally defined as regularity of behavior based on expectations evolved...
Cristiano Castelfranchi, Luca Tummolini
AAAI
2010
13 years 11 months ago
Informed Lifting for Message-Passing
Lifted inference, handling whole sets of indistinguishable objects together, is critical to the effective application of probabilistic relational models to realistic real world ta...
Kristian Kersting, Youssef El Massaoudi, Fabian Ha...
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Coalition Formation Meets Information Theory
The process of coalition formation, where distinct autonomous agents come together to act as a coherent group is an important form of interaction in multiagent systems. Previous w...
Victor Palmer, Thomas R. Ioerger