ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Springer
In this paper, we present a prototype that helps visualizing the relative importance of sentences extracted from medical texts using Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA). We propo...
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Springer
We consider the problem of distributed exploration or coverage of an unknown environment by a swarm of mobile minirobots that have limited memory, computation and communication ca...
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Springer
We propose Markov random fields (MRFs) as a probabilistic mathematical model for unifying approaches to multi-robot coordination or, more specifically, distributed action selectio...
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Springer
Mixed multi-unit combinatorial auctions are combinatorial auctions in which the auctioneer and the bidders negotiate over transformations rather than over simple goods. By proposi...
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Springer
This paper presents a novel non-flat synchronization model where the synchronization capacity of each agent is different regarding its social rank and strategy dominance. In the p...
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Springer
Distributed allocation and multiagent coordination problems can be solved through combinatorial auctions (CAs). However, most of the existing winner determination algorithms (WDAs...
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Springer
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Springer
A network of cooperating agents must be able to reach rough consensus on a set of topics for cooperation. With highly heterogeneous agents, however, incommensurable measures and i...
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Springer
This paper investigates software agents testing, and in particular how to automate test generation. We propose a novel approach, which takes advantage of agent interaction ontolog...
ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Springer
Computational grids offer users a simple access to tremendous computer resources for solving large scale computing problems. Traditional performance analysis of scheduling algorit...