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AGENTS
1999
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Learning to Remove Internet Advertisements
This paper discusses improving the methodology introduced in Kushmerick’s paper about learning to remove internet advertisements. The aim is to reduce the model build time as we...
Nicholas Kushmerick
AGENTS
1999
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Shopbot Economics
Abstract. Shopbots are agents that search the Internet for information pertaining to the price and quality of goods or services. With the advent of shopbots, a dramatic reduction i...
Jeffrey O. Kephart, Amy R. Greenwald
AGENTS
1999
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Exception Handling in Agent Systems
A critical challenge to creating effective agent-based systems is allowing them to operate effectively when the operating environment is complex, dynamic, and error-prone. In this...
Mark Klein, Chrysanthos Dellarocas
AGENTS
1999
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Catalog of Agent Coordination Patterns
This paper surveys the current state of the art in agentoriented software engineering, focusing on the area of coordinated multi-agent systems. In multi-agent systems, the interac...
Sandra C. Hayden, Christina Carrick, Qiang Yang
AGENTS
1999
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Personal News Agent That Talks, Learns and Explains
Most work on intelligent information agents has thus far focused on systems that are accessible through the World Wide Web. As demanding schedules prohibit people from continuous ...
Daniel Billsus, Michael J. Pazzani
AGENTS
1999
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Agent Development with Jackal
Jackal is a Java-based tool for communicatingwith the KQML agent communication language. Some features that make it extremely valuable to agent development are its conversation ma...
R. Scott Cost, Timothy W. Finin, Yannis Labrou, Xi...
AGENTS
1999
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Top-Down Search for Coordinating the Hierarchical Plans of Multiple Agents
Uncertain and complex environments demand that an agent be able to anticipate the actions of others in order to avoid resource conflicts with them and to realize its goals. Confli...
Bradley J. Clement, Edmund H. Durfee
AGENTS
1999
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Where to Look? Automating Attending Behaviors of Virtual Human Characters
This research proposes a computational framework for generating visual attending behavior in an embodied simulated human agent. Such behaviors directly control eye and head motion...
Sonu Chopra-Khullar, Norman I. Badler
AGENTS
1999
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Planning and Resource Allocation for Hard Real-Time, Fault-Tolerant Plan Execution
We describe the interface between a real-time resource allocation system with an AI planner in order to create fault-tolerant plans that are guaranteed to execute in hard real-tim...
Ella M. Atkins, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Kang G. Shin,...