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ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Integrating a MAS and a Pandemonium: the open-source framework AKIRA
The open-source framework AKIRA integrates Multiagent and Pandemonium elements. We describe the main components of the framework, showing that the hybrid nature of the Agents, hav...
Giovanni Pezzulo, Gianguglielmo Calvi, Rino Falcon...
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Individual beliefs and group acceptances within agent organizations
Groups of collaborative agents within organizations need to create group awareness in order to act as a single entity. The notion of collective belief, which has been used extensi...
Ioannis Partsakoulakis, George A. Vouros
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Protocol synthesis with dialogue structure theory
Inspired by computational linguistic approaches to annotate the structures that occur in human dialogue, this paper describes a technique which encodes these structures as transfo...
Jarred McGinnis, David Robertson, Christopher Walt...
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Modeling exceptions via commitment protocols
This paper develops a model for exceptions and an approach for incorporating them in commitment protocols among autonomous agents. Modeling and handling exceptions is critical for...
Ashok U. Mallya, Munindar P. Singh
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Foundations of organizational structures in multiagent systems
We analyze the notion of organizational structure in multiagent systems and explain the precise added value and the effects of such organizational structure on the involved agents...
Davide Grossi, Frank Dignum, Mehdi Dastani, Lamb&e...
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Layered message semantics using social commitments
Although mental states have its own place in the definition of message semantics, social commitments have emerged as a complementing element to circumvent the limitations of usin...
Roberto A. Flores, Philippe Pasquier, Brahim Chaib...
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A real-world approach to secure and trusted negotiation in MASs
The problem of providing tools to support legally valid negotiations between agents is becoming more and more critical. Agents are supposed to perform crucial tasks autonomously; ...
Roberto Bianchi, Andrea Fontana, Federico Bergenti
AOSE
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Zooming Multi-Agent Systems
Abstract Complex systems call for a hierarchical description. Analogously, the engineering of non-trivial MASs (multiagent systems) requires principles and mechanisms for a multi-l...
Ambra Molesini, Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci, ...
AAMAS
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Advice-Exchange Between Evolutionary Algorithms and Reinforcement Learning Agents: Experiments in the Pursuit Domain
This research aims at studying the effects of exchanging information during the learning process in Multiagent Systems. The concept of advice-exchange, introduced in (Nunes and Ol...
Luís Nunes, Eugénio C. Oliveira
ACMACE
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Integrate and conquer: the next generation of intelligent avatars
FreeWill+ is a framework that aims at integrating various animation techniques for controlling human-like characters. With heterogeneity and multi-layering as its main design prin...
Jaroslaw Francik, Adam Szarowicz