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WRAC
2005
Springer
14 years 11 days ago
Autonomy Without Independence: Animal Training as a Model for Robot Design
A classic autonomous robot is an autonomous agent for open, unpredictable environments. Such an agent is inherently autonomous but not independent. Independence implies unpredictab...
David C. Wyland
CLIMA
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Plan-Coordination Mechanisms and the Price of Autonomy
Abstract. Task-based planning problems for multi-agent systems require multiple agents to find a joint plan for a constrained set of tasks. Typically, each agent receives a subset...
J. Renze Steenhuisen, Cees Witteveen, Yingqian Zha...
ICDCSW
2007
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
A Middleware Support for Agent-Based Application Mobility in Pervasive Environments
—Application mobility is an efficient way to mask uneven conditioning and reduce users’ distractions in pervasive environments. However, since mobility brings more dynamism and...
Yu Zhou, Jiannong Cao, Vaskar Raychoudhury, Joanna...
OWLED
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Ontology-Based Management of the Telehealth Smart Home, Dedicated to Elderly in Loss of Cognitive Autonomy
Taking care of an elderly in loss of cognitive autonomy is a challenging task. Artificial agents, such as the Telehealth Smart Home (TSH) system can facilitate that task. However,...
Fatiha Latfi, Bernard Lefebvre, Céline Desc...
AGENTS
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Air traffic control and alert agent
This paper presents an agent program that monitors and interacts with the dynamic situation of flights around an airport tower as well as interacts with a human operator that can ...
Henry Hexmoor, Tim Heng