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2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Cluster-Swap: A Distributed K-median Algorithm for Sensor Networks
In building practical sensor networks, it is often beneficial to use only a subset of sensors to take measurements because of computational, communication, and power limitations....
Yoonheui Kim, Victor R. Lesser, Deepak Ganesan, Ra...
IAT
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Distributed Constraint Optimization for Large Teams of Mobile Sensing Agents
Abstract. A team of mobile sensors can be used for coverage of targets in different environments. The dynamic nature of such an application requires the team of agents to adjust th...
Roie Zivan, Robin Glinton, Katia P. Sycara
IAT
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Autonomous UAV Surveillance in Complex Urban Environments
We address the problem of multi-UAV surveillance in complex urban environments with occlusions. The problem consists of coordinating the flight of UAVs with on-board cameras so t...
Eduard Semsch, Michal Jakob, Dusan Pavlícek...
IAT
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Optimization-Based Collision Avoidance for Cooperating Airplanes
Application of autonomous intelligent systems into airspace domain is very important nowadays. The paper presents decentralized collision avoidance algorithm utilizing a solution ...
David Sislák, Premysl Volf, Michal Pechouce...
IAT
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Effects of Polite Behaviors Expressed by Robots: A Case Study in Japan
— To explore the design of politeness in embodied conversational agents and social robots from the perspective of user studies, a case study based on a psychological experiment w...
Tatsuya Nomura, Kazuma Saeki
IAT
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Creating Incentives to Prevent Intentional Execution Failures
—When information or control in a multiagent system is private to the agents, they may misreport this information or refuse to execute an agreed outcome, in order to change the r...
Yingqian Zhang, Mathijs de Weerdt
IAT
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Introducing Communication in Dis-POMDPs with Finite State Machines
Distributed Partially Observable Markov Decision Problems (DisPOMDPs) are emerging as a popular approach for modeling sequential decision making in teams operating under uncertain...
Yuki Iwanari, Makoto Tasaki, Makoto Yokoo, Atsushi...
IAT
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Extending Alternating-Offers Bargaining in One-to-Many and Many-to-Many Settings
Automating negotiations in markets where multiple buyers and sellers operate is a scientific challenge of extraordinary importance. One-to-one negotiations are classically studie...
Bo An, Nicola Gatti, Victor R. Lesser
IAT
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
An Intelligent Agent That Autonomously Learns How to Translate
—We describe the design of an autonomous agent that can teach itself how to translate from a foreign language, by first assembling its own training set, then using it to improve...
Marco Turchi, Tijl De Bie, Nello Cristianini
IAT
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Bilateral Bargaining with One-Sided Two-Type Uncertainty
It is a challenging problem to find agents’ rational strategies in bargaining with incomplete information. In this paper we perform a game theoretic analysis of agents’ ratio...
Bo An, Nicola Gatti, Victor R. Lesser