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ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Coordinated exploration of unknown labyrinthine environments applied to the pursuit evasion problem
This paper introduces a multi-robot cooperation approach to solve the pursuit evasion problem for mobile robots that have omnidirectional vision sensors in unknown environments. T...
Damien Pellier, Humbert Fiorino
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
How local is that optimum? k-optimality for DCOP
In multi-agent systems where sets of joint actions (JAs) are generated, metrics are needed to evaluate these sets and efficiently allocate resources for the many JAs. For the case...
Jonathan P. Pearce, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Milind Ta...
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Agent-based virtual organisations for the Grid
The ability to create reliable and scalable virtual organisations (VOs) on demand in a dynamic, open and competitive environment is one of the major challenges that underlie Grid ...
Jigar Patel, W. T. Luke Teacy, Nicholas R. Jenning...
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Sift and Sort: Climbing the Semantic Pyramid
Information processing operations in support of intelligence analysis are of two kinds. They may sift relevant data from a larger body, thus reducing its quantity, or sort that dat...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Peter Weinstein, Paul Chiusan...
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Global convergence of local agent behaviors
Many multi-agent systems seek to reconcile two apparently inconsistent constraints. The system’s overall objective is defined at a global level. However, the agents have only lo...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, John A. Saute...
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Individual beliefs and group acceptances within agent organizations
Groups of collaborative agents within organizations need to create group awareness in order to act as a single entity. The notion of collective belief, which has been used extensi...
Ioannis Partsakoulakis, George A. Vouros
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
An online POMDP algorithm for complex multiagent environments
In this paper, we present an online method for POMDPs, called RTBSS (Real-Time Belief Space Search), which is based on a look-ahead search to find the best action to execute at e...
Sébastien Paquet, Ludovic Tobin, Brahim Cha...
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
The value of privacy: optimal strategies for privacy minded agents
Agents often want to protect private information, while at the same acting upon the information. These two desires are in conflict, and this conflict can be modeled in strategic...
Sieuwert van Otterloo
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Task inference and distributed task management in the Centibots robotic system
We describe a very large scale distributed robotic system, involving a team of over 100 robots, that has been successfully deployed in large, unknown indoor environments, over ext...
Charlie Ortiz, Régis Vincent, Benoit Moriss...