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ATAL
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Formal Specification of dMARS
The Procedural Reasoning System (PRS) is the best established agent architecture currently available. It has been deployed in many major industrial applications, ranging from fault...
Mark d'Inverno, David Kinny, Michael Luck, Michael...
ATAL
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Customizable Coordination Service for Autonomous Agents
Abstract. We address the problem of constructing multiagent systems by coordinating autonomous agents, whose internal designs may not be fully known. We develop a customizable coor...
Munindar P. Singh
ATAL
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Framework for Argumentation-Based Negotiation
Abstract. Many autonomous agents operate in domains in which the cooperation of their fellow agents cannot be guaranteed. In such domains negotiation is essential to persuade other...
Carles Sierra, Nicholas R. Jennings, Pablo Noriega...
ATAL
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Multi-Agent Coordination through Coalition Formation
Incorporating coalition formation algorithms into agent systems shall be advantageous due to the consequent increase in the overall quality of task performance. Coalition formatio...
Onn Shehory, Katia P. Sycara, Somesh Jha
ATAL
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Deliberative and Reactive Diagnosis Agent Based on Logic Programming
We briefly overview the architecture of a diagnosis agent. We employ logic and logic programming to specify and implement the agent: the knowledge base uses extended logic progra...
Michael Schroeder, Iara de Almeida Móra, Lu...
ATAL
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Toward the Specification and Design of Industrial Synthetic Ecosystems
Many agent-based systems rely for their effectiveness on the intelligence of individual agents, and interaction among agents is required simply to coordinate these individually com...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, John A. Sauter, Steve Clark
ATAL
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Designing and Implementing a Multi-Agent Architecture for Business Process Management
Abstract. This paper presents a general multi-agent architecture for the management of businessprocesses,and an agent designthat has been implemented within such a system. The auto...
Timothy J. Norman, Nicholas R. Jennings, Peyman Fa...
ATAL
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Facilitating Open Communication in Agent Systems: The InfoSleuth Infrastructure
This paper addresses issues in developing open multiagent systems, in which it is easy to expand the functionality by adding new agents with new capabilities, and which facilitate ...
Marian H. Nodine, Amy Unruh
ATAL
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Semantics for an Agent Communication Language
Abstract. We address the issue of semantics for an agent communication language. In particular, the semantics of Knowledge Query Manipulation Language (KQML) is investigated. KQML ...
Yannis Labrou, Timothy W. Finin
ATAL
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Approximate Reasoning about Combined Knowledge
Abstract. Just as cooperation in multi-agent systems is a central issue for solving complex tasks, so too is the ability for an intelligent agent to reason about combined knowledge...
Frédéric Koriche