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AAMAS
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Modeling conversation policies using permissions and obligations
We describe our preliminary work in modeling conversation specifications and policies as positive/negative permissions and obligations. Our model is generic as it is independent o...
Lalana Kagal, Tim Finin
AAMAS
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Modeling dynamic environments in multi-agent simulation
Alexander Helleboogh, Giuseppe Vizzari, Adelinde U...
AAMAS
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Conversational semantics sustained by commitments
We propose an operational model that combines message meaning and conversational structure in one comprehensive approach. Our long-term research goal is to lay down principles unit...
Roberto A. Flores, Philippe Pasquier, Brahim Chaib...
AAMAS
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Parallel Reinforcement Learning with Linear Function Approximation
In this paper, we investigate the use of parallelization in reinforcement learning (RL), with the goal of learning optimal policies for single-agent RL problems more quickly by us...
Matthew Grounds, Daniel Kudenko
AAMAS
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Technology diffusion: analysing the diffusion of agent technologies
Despite several examples of deployed agent systems, there remain barriers to the large-scale adoption of agent technologies. In order to understand these barriers, this paper consi...
Jez McKean, Hayden Shorter, Michael Luck, Peter Mc...
AAMAS
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
User evaluation of a market-based recommender system
Recommender systems have been developed for a wide variety of applications (ranging from books, to holidays, to web pages). These systems have used a number of different approache...
Yan Zheng Wei, Nicholas R. Jennings, Luc Moreau, W...
AAMAS
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Organisational change through influence
We present the MOdel of Organisational Change using Agents (MOCHA) as a means to formally specify, check and simulate organisations and their changes using agents. We define the s...
Mairi McCallum, Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos, Timoth...
AAMAS
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Norms and plans as unification criteria for social collectives
Abstract. Based on the formal-ontological paradigm of Constructive Descriptions and Situations, we propose a definition of social collectives that includes social agents, plans, no...
Aldo Gangemi
AAMAS
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Industrial deployment of multi-agent technologies: review and selected case studies
This paper reports on industrial deployment of multi-agent systems and agent technology. It provides an overview of several application domains and an in-depth presentation of four...
Michal Pechoucek, Vladimír Marík