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ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
An adaptive agent model for self-organizing MAS
Self-organizing multi-agent systems (MAS) use different mechanisms to mimic the adaptation exhibited by complex systems situated in unpredictable and dynamic environments. These m...
Candelaria Sansores, Juan Pavón
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
On k-optimal distributed constraint optimization algorithms: new bounds and algorithms
Distributed constraint optimization (DCOP) is a promising approach to coordination, scheduling and task allocation in multi agent networks. In large-scale or low-bandwidth network...
Emma Bowring, Jonathan P. Pearce, Christopher Port...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Characterizing effective auction mechanisms: insights from the 2007 TAC market design competition
This paper analyzes the entrants to the 2007 TAC Market Design competition. It presents a classification of the entries to the competition, and uses this classification to compare...
Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, Enrico Gerdi...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Agent-based models for animal cognition: a proposal and prototype
Animal ecologists have successfully applied agent-based models to many different problems. Often, these focus on issues concerning collective behaviors, environmental interactions...
Elske van der Vaart, Rineke Verbrugge
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Trajectories of goods in distributed allocation
Distributed allocation mechanisms rely on the agents' autonomous (and supposedly rational) behaviour: states evolve as a result of agents contracting deals and exchanging res...
Yann Chevaleyre, Ulle Endriss, Nicolas Maudet
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Goals in agent systems: a unifying framework
In the literature on agent systems, the proactive behavior of agents is often modeled in terms of goals that the agents pursue. We review a number of commonly-used existing goal t...
M. Birna van Riemsdijk, Mehdi Dastani, Michael Win...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Suspending and resuming tasks in BDI agents
Intelligent agents designed to work in complex, dynamic environments must respond robustly and flexibly to environmental and circumstantial changes. An agent must be capable of de...
John Thangarajah, James Harland, David N. Morley, ...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
ERIC: a generic rule-based framework for an affective embodied commentary agent
We present ERIC, an affective embodied agent for realtime commentary in many domains. The underlying architecture is rulebased, generic, and lightweight
Martin Strauss 0002, Michael Kipp
HAIS
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Analysing the Low Quality of the Data in Lighting Control Systems
Energy efficiency represents one of the main challenges in the engineering field, i.e., by means of decreasing the energy consumption due to a better design minimising the energy ...
José Ramón Villar, Enrique A. de la ...
HAIS
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Power Prediction in Smart Grids with Evolutionary Local Kernel Regression
Electric grids are moving from a centralized single supply chain towards a decentralized bidirectional grid of suppliers and consumers in an uncertain and dynamic scenario. Soon, t...
Oliver Kramer, Benjamin Satzger, Jörg Lä...