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AGENTS
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Ant-Like Agents for Load Balancing in Telecommunications Networks
This paper describes a novel method of achieving load balancing in telecommunications networks. A simulated network models a typical distribution of calls between arbitrary nodes;...
Ruud Schoonderwoerd, Owen Holland, Janet Bruten
AGENTS
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
COLLAGEN: When Agents Collaborate with People
We take the position that autonomous agents, when they interact with people, should be governed by the same principles that underlie human collaboration. These principles come fro...
Charles Rich, Candace L. Sidner
AGENTS
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Methodology for Building Believable Social Agents
Believable agents are defined to be interactive versions of quality characters in traditional artistic media like film. Such agents are useful in applications such as interactive ...
W. Scott Neal Reilly
AGENTS
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
SAIRE - A Scalable Agent-Based Information Retrieval Engine
The information access and retrieval capabilities provided by several conventional search engines, while improving upon traditional techniques, are lacking in supporting conceptua...
Jidé B. Odubiyi, David J. Kocur, Stuart M. ...
AGENTS
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Progressive Negotiation For Time-Constrained Autonomous Agents
We address in this paper a problem of autonomous agents performing in a common environment where each agent has its goal to achieve before a given deadline. Agents must be able to...
Abdel-Illah Mouaddib
AGENTS
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
An Intelligent Assistant for Patient Health Care
The Patient Advocate is designed to be an intelligent assistant for patient-centered health care. Residing on a home computer or special-purpose device and operating within an ext...
Silvia Miksch, Kenneth Cheng, Barbara Hayes-Roth
AGENTS
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Extended Grasping Behavior for Autonomous Human Agents
In this paper we present an efficient technique allowing distant grasp behaviors while preserving the static balance. This feature greatly increases the autonomy of virtual humans...
Ramon Mas, Ronan Boulic, Daniel Thalmann
AGENTS
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Generation of Unknown Environment Maps by Cooperative Low-Cost Robots
Ramon López de Mántaras, Josep Amat,...
AGENTS
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Ontology-based Web Agents
This paper describes SHOE, a set of Simple HTML Ontology Extensions which allow World-Wide Web authors to annotate their pages with semantic knowledge such as “I am a graduate s...
Sean Luke, Lee Spector, David Rager, James A. Hend...
AGENTS
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Adaptation and Learning in Animated Creatures
This paper is concerned with synthetic agents interacting with virtual environments, called animated creatures. The animated creatures are articulated graphical gures that are eq...
Jiming Liu, Hong Qin, Yuan Yan Tang, Y. T. Wu