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MAAMAW
1994
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Towards a Theory of Cooperative Problem Solving
One objective of distributed artificial intelligence research is to build systems that are capable of cooperative problem solving. To this end, a number of implementation-oriented ...
Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R. Jennings
MAAMAW
1994
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
What Ants Cannot Do
What is the relation between the complexity of agents and the complexity of the goals that they can achieve? It is argued on the basis of a fundamental conservation of complexity ...
Eric Werner
MAAMAW
1994
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Multi-Agent Approach to Dynamic, Adaptive Scheduling of Material Flow
Advanced manufacturing control still remains an important topic in current research. Especially aspects of dynamics and of failures in the production process are insufficiently ta...
Stefan Bussmann
MAAMAW
1993
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Coalition Formation Among Autonomous Agents
Autonomous agents working in multi-agent environments may need to cooperate in order to ful ll tasks. Given a set of agents and a set of tasks which they have to satisfy, we consi...
Steven P. Ketchpel
MAAMAW
1993
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Norms as Mental Objects - From Normative Beliefs to Normative Goals
Rosaria Conte, Cristiano Castelfranchi
MAAMAW
1993
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Coalition Formation Among Autonomous Agents: Strategies and Complexity
Autonomous agents are designed to reach goals that were pre-de ned by their operators. An important way to execute tasks and to maximize payo is to share resources and to cooperate...
Onn Shehory, Sarit Kraus
ECAIW
1994
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages: A Survey
The concept of an agent has recently become important in Artificial Intelligence (AI), and its relatively youthful subfield, Distributed AI (DAI). Our aim in this paper is to poin...
Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R. Jennings
ECAIW
1994
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Goal Creation in Motivated Agents
Abstract. Goal creation is an important consideration for an agent that is required to behave autonomously in a real-world domain. This paper describes an agent that is directed, n...
Timothy J. Norman, Derek Long