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ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Leader-follower strategies for robotic patrolling in environments with arbitrary topologies
Game theoretic approaches to patrolling have become a topic of increasing interest in the very last years. They mainly refer to a patrolling mobile robot that preserves an environ...
Nicola Basilico, Nicola Gatti, Francesco Amigoni
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
MABLE: a framework for learning from natural instruction
The Modular Architecture for Bootstrapped Learning Experiments (MABLE) is a system that is being developed to allow humans to teach computers in the most natural manner possible: ...
Roger Mailler, Daniel Bryce, Jiaying Shen, Ciaran ...
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Combining fault injection and model checking to verify fault tolerance in multi-agent systems
The ability to guarantee that a system will continue to operate correctly under degraded conditions is key to the success of adopting multi-agent systems (MAS) as a paradigm for d...
Jonathan Ezekiel, Alessio Lomuscio
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Evaluating hybrid constraint tightening for scheduling agents
Hybrid Scheduling Problems (HSPs) combine temporal and finite-domain variables via hybrid constraints that dictate that specific bounds on temporal constraints rely on assignments...
James C. Boerkoel Jr., Edmund H. Durfee
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Like an intuitive and courteous butler: a proactive personal agent for task management
The ability to proactively offer assistance promises to make personal agents more helpful to their users. We characterize the properties desired of proactive behaviour by a person...
Neil Yorke-Smith, Shahin Saadati, Karen L. Myers, ...
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Perspectives and challenges of agent-based simulation as a tool for economics and other social sciences
This paper argues that the agent-based simulation approach is just the one appropriate to the social sciences (including economics). Although there were many predecessor approache...
Klaus G. Troitzsch
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Actor-agent application for train driver rescheduling
This paper describes the design, implementation, visualizations, results and lessons learned of a novel real-world socio-technical research system for the purpose of rescheduling ...
Erwin J. W. Abbink, David G. A. Mobach, Pieter-Jan...
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Sensitivity analysis for distributed optimization with resource constraints
Previous work in multiagent coordination has addressed the challenge of planning in domains where agents must optimize a global goal, while satisfying local resource constraints. ...
Emma Bowring, Zhengyu Yin, Rob Zinkov, Milind Tamb...
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
From DPS to MAS to ...: continuing the trends
The most important and interesting of the computing challenges we are facing are those that involve the problems and opportunities afforded by massive decentralization and disinte...
Michael N. Huhns
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Modeling billiards games
Two-player games of billiards, of the sort seen in recent Computer Olympiads held by the International Computer Games Association, are an emerging area with unique challenges for ...
Christopher Archibald, Yoav Shoham