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AAMAS
2002
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Adapting Populations of Agents
We control a population of interacting software agents. The agents have a strategy, and receive a payoff for executing that strategy. Unsuccessful agents become extinct. We investi...
Philippe De Wilde, Maria Chli, Luís Correia...
AIL
2004
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Anonymity and software agents: An interdisciplinary challenge
Software agents that play a role in E-commerce and E-government applications involving the Internet often contain information about the identity of their human user such as credit ...
Frances M. T. Brazier, Anja Oskamp, Corien Prins, ...
AI
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
The complexity of contract negotiation
The use of software agents for automatic contract negotiation in e-commerce and e-trading ents has been the subject of considerable recent interest. A widely studied abstract mode...
Paul E. Dunne, Michael Wooldridge, Michael Laurenc...
IDT
2007
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Negotiating flexible agreements by combining distributive and integrative negotiation
This paper presents an approach to automated negotiation between agents which attempts to combine the advantages of a co-operative value adding approach, with the reality that neg...
Quoc Bao Vo, Lin Padgham, Lawrence Cavedon
JUCS
2008
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The APS Framework For Incremental Learning of Software Agents
Abstract: Adaptive behavior and learning are required of software agents in many application domains. At the same time agents are often supposed to be resource-bounded systems, whi...
Damian Dudek
ITSSA
2006
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The UbiMedic Framework to Support Medical Emergencies by Ubiquitous Computing
: This paper investigates the feasibility of employing the Software Agent technology in the highly dynamic and variable context of healthcare emergency coordination and decision-su...
Francesco De Mola, Giacomo Cabri, Nicola Muratori,...
AEI
2006
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Emergent short-term forecasting through ant colony engineering in coordination and control systems
This manuscript presents a design for the emergent generation of short-term forecasts in multi-agent coordination and control systems. Food foraging behavior in ant colonies const...
Paul Valckenaers, Karuna Hadeli, Bart Saint Germai...
AIL
2008
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Artificial institutions: a model of institutional reality for open multiagent systems
Software agents' ability to interact within different open systems, designed by different groups, presupposes an agreement on an unambiguous definition of a set of concepts, ...
Nicoletta Fornara, Francesco Viganò, Mario ...
AAI
2007
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Managing Responsive Environments with Software Agents
Responsive environments are physical surroundings whose components change their behaviour to accommodate the presence of people as well as other components. We describe a means to...
Flávio S. Corrêa da Silva, Wamberto W...
AAAI
1994
14 years 26 days ago
An Experiment in the Design of Software Agents
We describe a bottom-up approach to the design of software agents. We built and tested an agent system that addresses the real-world problem of handling the activities involved in...
Henry A. Kautz, Bart Selman, Michael H. Coen, Stev...