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1998
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Towards a theory of delegation for agent-based systems
In this paper a theory of delegation is presented. There are at least three reasons for developing such a theory. First, one of the most relevant notions of "agent" is b...
Cristiano Castelfranchi, Rino Falcone
ICMAS
1998
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Heterogeneity, Stability, and Efficiency in Distributed Systems
This paper explores the increasing the heterogeneity of an agent population to stabilize decentralized systems by adding bias terms to each agent's expected payoffs. Two appr...
James D. Thomas, Katia P. Sycara
AAAI
1998
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Which Search Problems Are Random?
The typical difficulty of various NP-hard problems varies with simple parameters describing their structure. This behavior is largely independent of the search algorithm, but depe...
Tad Hogg
AAAI
1998
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A Non-Deterministic Semantics for Tractable Inference
Unit resolution is arguably the most useful known algorithm for tractable reasoning in propositional logic. Intuitively, if one knows a, b, and a b c, then c should be an obviou...
James M. Crawford, David W. Etherington
AAAI
1998
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Cooperating with people: the Intelligent Classroom
People frequently complain that it is too difficult to figure out how to get computers to do what they want. However, with a computer system that actually tries to understand what...
David Franklin