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ADMI
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Real-Time Sensory Pattern Mining for Autonomous Agents
Abstract. Autonomous agents are systems situated in dynamic environments. They pursue goals and satisfy their needs by responding to external events from the environment. In these ...
Pedro Sequeira, Cláudia Antunes
RAS
2008
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Theory and implementation of path planning by negotiation for decentralized agents
This paper presents a cooperative decentralized path-planning algorithm for a group of autonomous agents that provides guaranteed collisionfree trajectories in real-time. The algo...
Oliver Purwin, Raffaello D'Andrea, Jin-Woo Lee
RAS
1998
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An architecture for autonomous agents exploiting conceptual representations
An architecture for autonomous agents is proposed, that integrates the functional and the
Antonio Chella, Marcello Frixione, Salvatore Gagli...
AIL
1999
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Autonomous Agents with Norms
In this paper we present some concepts and their relations that are necessary for modeling autonomous agents in an environment that is governed by some (social) norms. We divide th...
Frank Dignum
AAMAS
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Roadmap of Agent Research and Development
This paper provides an overview of research and development activities in the field of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. It aims to identify key concepts and applications...
Nicholas R. Jennings, Katia P. Sycara, Michael Woo...
CI
2004
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Purpose-Based Expert Finding in a Portfolio Management System
Most of the research inthe area of expert finding focuses on creating and maintaining centralized directories of experts' profiles, which users can search on demand. However, ...
Xiaolin Niu, Gordon I. McCalla, Julita Vassileva
APIN
2004
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A Prototypical System for Soft Evidential Update
Autonomous agents that communicate using probabilistic information and use Bayesian networks for knowledge representation need an update mechanism that goes beyond conditioning on ...
Young-Gyun Kim, Marco Valtorta, Jirí Vomlel
AAMAS
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Autonomous Agents that Learn to Better Coordinate
A fundamental difficulty faced by groups of agents that work together is how to efficiently coordinate their efforts. This coordination problem is both ubiquitous and challenging,...
Andrew Garland, Richard Alterman
AAMAS
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
The Dynamic Selection of Coordination Mechanisms
This paper presents and evaluates a decision making framework that enables autonomous agents to dynamically select the mechanism they employ in order to coordinate their inter-rela...
Cora B. Excelente-Toledo, Nicholas R. Jennings
AAI
2004
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Devising A Trust Model For Multi-Agent Interactions Using Confidence And Reputation
In open environments in which autonomous agents can break contracts, computational models of trust have an important role to play in determining who to interact with and how inter...
Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Nicholas R. Jennings, Carle...