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ATAL
2000
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Optimistic and Disjunctive Agent Design Problems
Abstract. The agent design problem is as follows: Given an environment, together with a specification of a task, is it possible to construct an agent that will guarantee to succes...
Michael Wooldridge, Paul E. Dunne
ATAL
2000
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
An Architectural Framework for Integrated Multiagent Planning, Reacting, and Learning
Abstract. Dyna is a single-agent architectural framework that integrates learning, planning, and reacting. Well known instantiations of Dyna are Dyna-AC and Dyna-Q. Here a multiage...
Gerhard Weiß
ATAL
2000
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Determining the Envelope of Emergent Agent Behaviour via Architectural Transformation
In this paper we propose a methodology to help analyse tendencies in MAS to complement those of simple inspection, Monte Carlo and syntactic proof. We suggest an architecture that ...
Oswaldo Terán, Bruce Edmonds, Steve Wallis
ATAL
2000
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Adjustable Autonomy: A Response
Milind Tambe, David V. Pynadath, Paul Scerri
ATAL
2000
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Multiagent Bidding Mechanisms for Robot Qualitative Navigation
This paper explores the use of bidding mechanisms to coordinate the actions requested by a group of agents in charge of achieving the task of guiding a robot towards a specified t...
Carles Sierra, Ramon López de Mántar...
ATAL
2000
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Modeling Multiagent Systems with CASL - A Feature Interaction Resolution Application
Abstract. In this paper, we describe the Cognitive Agents Specification Language (CASL), and exhibit its characteristics by using it to model the multiagent feature interaction re...
Steven Shapiro, Yves Lespérance
ATAL
2000
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
High-Level Robot Control through Logic
This paper presents a programmable logic-based agent control system that interleaves planning, plan execution and perception. In this system, a program is a collection of logical f...
Murray Shanahan, Mark Witkowski
ATAL
2000
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Layered Disclosure: Revealing Agents' Internals
A perennial challenge in creating and using complex autonomous agents is following their choices of actions as the world changes dynamically and understanding why they act as they ...
Patrick Riley, Peter Stone, Manuela M. Veloso
ATAL
2000
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Delegation and Responsibility
An agent may decide to delegate tasks to others. The act of delegating a task by one autonomous agent to another can be carried out by the performance of one or more imperative com...
Timothy J. Norman, Chris Reed
ATAL
2000
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Task Coordination Paradigms for Information Agents
In agent systems, different (autonomous) agents collaborate to execute complex tasks. Each agent provides a set of useful capabilities, and the agent system combines these capabili...
Marian H. Nodine, Damith Chandrasekara, Amy Unruh