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ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Emotional reading of medical texts using conversational agents
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...
Gersende Georg, Catherine Pelachaud, Marc Cavazza
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Coalition game-based distributed coverage of unknown environments by robot swarms
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...
Ke Cheng, Prithviraj Dasgupta
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Multi-robot Markov random fields
We propose Markov random fields (MRFs) as a probabilistic mathematical model for unifying approaches to multi-robot coordination or, more specifically, distributed action selectio...
Jesse Butterfield, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Brian ...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Comparing winner determination algorithms for mixed multi-unit combinatorial auctions
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...
Brammert Ottens, Ulle Endriss
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Convergence at prominent agents: a non-flat synchronization model of situated multi-agents
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...
Jiuchuan Jiang, Yichuan Jiang
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Approximate bidding algorithms for a distributed combinatorial auction
Distributed allocation and multiagent coordination problems can be solved through combinatorial auctions (CAs). However, most of the existing winner determination algorithms (WDAs...
Benito Mendoza García, José M. Vidal
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Shared focus of attention for heterogeneous agents
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...
Jacob Beal
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Ontology-based test generation for multiagent systems
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...
Duy Cu Nguyen, Anna Perini, Paolo Tonella
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
On the importance of migration for fairness in online grid markets
Computational grids offer users a simple access to tremendous computer resources for solving large scale computing problems. Traditional performance analysis of scheduling algorit...
Lior Amar, Ahuva Mu'alem, Jochen Stößer