ICMAS
2000
14 years 4 days ago
2000
This paper is concerned with the problem of how effective social interaction arises from individual social action and mind. The need to study the individual social mind, suggests ...
ICMAS
2000
14 years 4 days ago
2000
Research on resource-bounded agents has established that rational agents need to be able to revise their commitments in the light of new opportunities. In the context of collabora...
ICMAS
2000
14 years 4 days ago
2000
s This paper introduces an architecture-centric object-oriented design method for MAS (Multi-Agent Systems) using the extended UML (Unified Modeling Language). The UML extension is...
ICMAS
2000
14 years 4 days ago
2000
In this paper, we formulate agent's decision process under the framework of Markov decision processes, and in particular, the multi-agent extension to Markov decision process...
ICMAS
2000
14 years 4 days ago
2000
We consider multiple agents who's task is to determine the true state of a uncertain domain so they can act properly. If each agent only has partial knowledge about the domai...
ICMAS
2000
14 years 4 days ago
2000
This paper investigates the computational complexity of a fundamental problem in multi-agent systems: given an environment together with a specification of some task, can we const...
ICMAS
2000
14 years 4 days ago
2000
In this paper, I motivate, define, and illustrate the notion of computationally grounded theories of agency. A theory of agency is said to be computationally grounded if we can gi...
ICMAS
2000
14 years 4 days ago
2000
We present a method for multi-agent negotiation for implementing a distributed meeting scheduler. In the meeting scheduler, an agent negotiates with other agents about making an p...
ICMAS
2000
14 years 4 days ago
2000
In this paper we develop a notion of "objective trust" for Software Agents, that is trust of, or between, Agents based on actual experiences between those Agents. Experi...
ICMAS
2000
14 years 4 days ago
2000
When shall I fly to New York? Which airline should I choose? How are these related to which airport I arrive at, to how I might travel into the city and to where I choose to stay?...