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EXACT
2007
13 years 10 months ago
A Discourse Approach to Explanation Aware Knowledge Representation
This study describes a discourse approach to explanation aware knowledge representation. It presents a reasoning model that adheres to argumentation as found in written discourse,...
Andrew Potter
WSC
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Using empirical demand data and common random numbers in an agent-based simulation of a distribution network
Agent-based simulation provides a methodology to investigate complex systems behavior, such as supply chains, while incorporating many empirical elements relative to both systems ...
William J. Sawaya
ICWS
2007
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Reputation-Enhanced QoS-based Web Services Discovery
With an increasing number of Web services providing similar functionalities, Quality of Service (QoS) is becoming an important criterion for selection of the best available servic...
Ziqiang Xu, Patrick Martin, Wendy Powley, Farhana ...
CLIMA
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Answer Set Programming for Representing and Reasoning About Virtual Institutions
It is recognised that institutions are potentially powerful means for making agent interactions effective and efficient, but institutions will only really be useful when, as in oth...
Owen Cliffe, Marina De Vos, Julian A. Padget
IJCAI
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Taming Decentralized POMDPs: Towards Efficient Policy Computation for Multiagent Settings
The problem of deriving joint policies for a group of agents that maximize some joint reward function can be modeled as a decentralized partially observable Markov decision proces...
Ranjit Nair, Milind Tambe, Makoto Yokoo, David V. ...