In this paper, we present a mechanism to fly a swarm of UAVs with the aim of establishing a wireless backbone over a pre-specified area. The backbone is aimed at connecting interm...
Techniques that support effective communication during teamwork processes are of particular importance. Psychological study shows that an effective team often can anticipate infor...
Yu Zhang, Richard A. Volz, Thomas R. Ioerger, John...
This paper presents an algorithm for learning the meaning of messages communicated between agents that interact while acting optimally towards a cooperative goal. Our reinforcemen...
Claudia V. Goldman, Martin Allen, Shlomo Zilberste...
This paper addresses the problem of scheduling jobs in soft real-time systems, where the utility of completing each job decreases over time. We present a utility-based framework fo...
This paper investigates the problem of estimating the value of probabilistic parameters needed for decision making in environments in which an agent, operating within a multi-agen...