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ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Agent dependability as an architectural issue
Layered architectures are a proven principle for the design of software systems and components. The paper introduces a layered reference architecture for software agents which assi...
Peter C. Lockemann, Jens Nimis
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Performance analysis of untraceability protocols for mobile agents using an adaptable framework
Recently we had proposed two untraceability protocols for mobile agents and began investigating their quality. We believe that quality evaluation of security protocols should exte...
Rafal Leszczyna, Janusz Górski
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Reducing costly information acquisition in auctions
Most research on auctions assumes that potential bidders have private information about their willingness to pay for the item being auctioned, and that they use this information s...
Kate Larson
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
ActorNet: an actor platform for wireless sensor networks
We present actorNet, a mobile agent platform for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). WSNs are well-suited to multiagent systems: agent autonomy reduces the need for communication, sa...
YoungMin Kwon, Sameer Sundresh, Kirill Mechitov, G...
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Symbolic negotiation revisited
In this paper we propose a formalism for symbolic negotiation. We regard symbolic negotiation as cooperative problem solving (CPS), which is based on symbolic reasoning and is ext...
Peep Küngas, Mihhail Matskin
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A constraint optimization framework for fractured robot teams
In dangerous and uncertain environments initial plans must be revised. Communication failures hamper this replanning. We introduce fractured subteams as a novel formalism for mode...
Mary Koes, Katia P. Sycara, Illah R. Nourbakhsh
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Automated semantic web service discovery with OWLS-MX
We present an approach to hybrid semantic Web service matching that complements logic based reasoning with approximate matching based on syntactic IR based similarity computations...
Matthias Klusch, Benedikt Fries, Katia P. Sycara
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
SeSAm: implementation of agent-based simulation using visual programming
In this paper, we present the most important features of SeSAm, a modeling and simulation platform for multi-agent simulations. Based on a declarative, explicit model representati...
Franziska Klügl, Rainer Herrler, Manuel Fehle...
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Efficient agents for cliff-edge environments with a large set of decision options
This paper proposes an efficient agent for competing in Cliff Edge (CE) environments, such as sealed-bid auctions, dynamic pricing and the ultimatum game. The agent competes in on...
Ron Katz, Sarit Kraus
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Adaptive agent negotiation via argumentation
In this paper, we study how argumentation can be used as a basis for negotiation between autonomous agents, where negotiation strategies of the different parties are represented a...
Antonis C. Kakas, Pavlos Moraitis