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ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
13 years 7 months ago
A model for dynamic and adaptable services management
The dynamic nature of Service-Oriented Architectures challenges traditional systems management practices which tend to be static in nature. We propose a goal-oriented, agent-based...
Patrick Martin, Wendy Powley, Imad Abdallah, Jun L...
ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Architecture-driven self-adaptation and self-management in robotics systems
We describe an architecture-centric design and implementation approach for building self-adapting and selfmanaging robotics systems. The basis of our approach is the concept of me...
George Edwards, Joshua Garcia, Hossein Tajalli, Da...
ICTAI
2009
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
TiMDPpoly: An Improved Method for Solving Time-Dependent MDPs
We introduce TiMDPpoly, an algorithm designed to solve planning problems with durative actions, under probabilistic uncertainty, in a non-stationary, continuous-time context. Miss...
Emmanuel Rachelson, Patrick Fabiani, Fréd&e...
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Using rituals to express cultural differences in synthetic characters
There is currently an ongoing demand for richer Intelligent Virtual Environments (IVEs) populated with social intelligent agents. As a result, many agent architectures are taking ...
Samuel Mascarenhas, João Dias, Nuno Afonso,...
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
False name manipulations in weighted voting games: splitting, merging and annexation
An important aspect of mechanism design in social choice protocols and multiagent systems is to discourage insincere and manipulative behaviour. We examine the computational compl...
Haris Aziz, Mike Paterson