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1114.2 Mobile Ambients - Cardelli, Gordon (1998)(Correct)
We introduce a calculus describing the movement of processes and devices, including
movement through administrative domains.
Keywords: Agents, process calculi, mobility, wide-area computation.
1 Intro... / framework that encompasses mobile agents the ambients where agents
530.4 The Oz Programming Model - Smolka (1995)(Correct)
The Oz Programming Model (OPM) is a concurrent programming model subsuming higher- order functional and object-oriented programming as facets of a general model. This is particularly interesting for c... / of Oz include simulations multi-agent systems natural language
518.8 Learning to Act using Real-Time Dynamic Programming - Barto, Bradtke, Singh (1995)(Correct)
Learning methods based on dynamic programming (DP) are receiving increasing attention in artificial intelligence. Researchers have argued that DP provides the appropriate basis for compiling planning ... / learning methods by which autonomous agents can improve skills in
475.3 BDI Agents: From Theory to Practice - Rao, Georgeff (1995)(Correct)
The study of computational agents capable of rational behaviour has received a great deal of attention in recent years. Theoretical formalizations of such agents and their implementations have proceed... / International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems ICMAS- San Francisco
472.4 A Calculus of Mobile Agents - Fournet, Gonthier, Lévy, Maranget.. (1996)(Correct)
We introduce a calculus for mobile agents and give its chemical semantics, with a precise definition for migration, failure, and failure detection. Various examples written in our calculus illustrat... / A Calculus of Mobile Agents C'edric Fournet Georges
417.0 Agent Tcl: A flexible and secure mobile-agent system - Gray (1997)(Correct)
A mobile agent is an autonomous program that can migrate under its own control from machine to machine in a heterogeneous network. In other words, the program can suspend its execution at an arbitrary... / Agent Tcl A flexible and secure mobile-agent system A Thesis Submitted
391.3 The Complexity of Concept Languages - Donini, Lenzerini, Nardi, Nutt (1995)(Correct)
The basic feature of Terminological Knowledge Representation Systems is to represent
knowledge by means of taxonomies, here called terminologies, and to provide
a specialized reasoning engine to do in... / Systems Deduction and Multiagent Systems Document Analysis and
381.8 The Open Agent Architecture: A Framework for Building Distributed.. - Martin, Cheyer, Moran (1999)(Correct)
The Open Agent Architecture (OAA), developed and used for several years at SRI International, makes it possible for software services to be provided through the cooperative efforts of distributed coll... / of distributed collections of autonomous agents. Communication and br a framework for constructing multiagent systems developed at the Artificial
376.8 Kasbah: An Agent Marketplace for Buying and Selling Goods - Chavez, Maes (1996)(Correct)
While there are many Web services which help users find things to buy, we know of none which actually try to automate the process of buying and selling. Kasbah is a virtual marketplace on the Web wher... / on the Web where users create autonomous agents to buy and sell goods on br marketplace. Kasbah is thus a multiagent system. The marketplace is designed
371.4 A Roadmap of Agent Research and Development - Jennings, Sycara, Wooldridge (1998)(Correct)
This paper provides an overview of research and development activities in the field of autonomous
agents and multi-agent systems. It aims to identify key concepts and applications, and to indicate h... / Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems br and S. H. Clearwater. A multiagent system for controlling building
354.5 A Methodology for Agent-Oriented Analysis and Design - Wooldridge, Jennings, Kinny (1999)(Correct)
This paper presents a methodology for agent-oriented analysis and design. The methodology is general, in that it is applicable to a wide range of multi-agent systems, and comprehensive, in that it dea... / European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a MultiAgent World br to a wide range of multi-agent systems and comprehensive in that
344.6 Towards Flexible Teamwork - Tambe (1997)(Correct)
Many AI researchers are today striving to build agent teams for complex, dynamic
multi-agent domains, with intended applications in arenas such as education, training,
entertainment, information integ... / International Conference on Autonomous Agents Agents' Rosenbloom br Unfortunately implemented multi-agent systems often fail to provide the
328.5 Agent-Oriented Software Engineering - Jennings, Wooldridge (2000)(Correct)
Agent-oriented techniques represent an exciting new means of analysing, designing and building complex
software systems. They have the potential to significantly improve current practice in software
... / a collection of interacting autonomous agents i.e.as a multi-agent br and verification of multiagent systems Int. Journal of
327.2 Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning with the MAXQ Value Function.. - Thomas G. Dietterich (1999)(Correct)
This paper presents a new approach to hierarchical reinforcement learning based on decomposing
the target Markov decision process (MDP) into a hierarchy of smaller MDPs and decomposing
the value funct... / for constructing robust autonomous agents that are able to achieve br Economic principles of multi-agent systems Editorial Artificial
314.2 The Michigan Internet AuctionBot: A Configurable Auction Server for.. - Wurman, Wellman, Walsh (1998)(Correct)
Market mechanisms, such as auctions, will likely represent
a common interaction medium for agents on the
Internet. The Michigan Internet AuctionBot is a flexible,
scalable, and robust auction server t... / International Conference on Autonomous Agents pages - . E. br development of market-based multiagent systems. This paper presents an
304.3 RoboCup: The Robot World Cup Initiative - Kitano, Asada, Kuniyoshi, Noda, Osawa (1995)(Correct)
The Robot World Cup Initiative (RoboCup)
is an attempt to foster AI and intelligent
robotics research by providing a standard problem
where wide range of technologies can be
integrated and examined. T... / design principles of autonomous agents multi-agent collaboration br real-time planning multi-agent systems context recognition
295.6 Collaborative Plans for Complex Group Action - Barbara Grosz (1996)(Correct)
The original formulation of SharedPlans (Grosz and Sidner, 1990a) was developed to provide
a model of collaborative planning in which it was not necessary for one agent to have intentions-to
toward an... / the context of cooperation of autonomous agents Klein Polat br inter alia most multi-agent systems in which the agents need to
285.1 The Architecture of the Ara Platform for Mobile Agents - Peine, Stolpmann (1997)(Correct)
We describe a platform for the portable and secure execution of mobile agents written in various interpreted languages on top of a common run-time core. Agents may migrate at any point in their execut... / of the Ara Platform for Mobile Agents Holger Peine and Torsten
281.8 LIME: Linda Meets Mobility - Picco, Murphy, Roman (1999)(Correct)
Lime is a system designed to assist in the rapid development of dependable mobile applications over both wired and ad hoc networks. Mobile agents reside on mobile hosts and all communication takes pla... / both wired and ad hoc networks. Mobile agents reside on mobile hosts and br permanently bound to mobile agents and mobile hosts. Transient sharing
276.5 Cooperative Mobile Robotics: Antecedents and Directions - Cao, Fukunaga, Kahng (1997)(Correct)
There has been increased research interest in systems composed of multiple autonomous mobile robots exhibiting cooperative behavior. Groups of mobile robots are constructed, with an aim to studying ... / control over mostly autonomous agents br intelligence mobile robots multiagent systems . Preliminaries There
257.1 Types for Mobile Ambients - Cardelli, Gordon (1998)(Correct)
Java has demonstrated the utility of type systems for mobile code, and in particular
their use and implications for security. Security properties rest on the
fact that a well-typed Java program (or th... / we obtain a type system for mobile agents and other mobile computations.
256.7 Markov games as a framework for multi-agent reinforcement learning - Littman (1994)(Correct)
In the Markov decision process (MDP) formalization
of reinforcement learning, a single adaptive
agent interacts with an environment defined by a
probabilistic transition function. In this solipsistic
... / designed for reasoning about multi-agent systems. Markov games see e.g.
245.7 Mobile Agents for Network Management - Bieszczad, Pagurek, White (1998)(Correct)
In this paper, we discuss the potential uses of mobile agents in Network Management. We
define software agents and a navigation model, which determines agent mobility. We list a
number of potential ad... / . . Lesser V. R.Multiagent Systems An Emerging Subdiscipline br that applies to Multi-Agent Systems MAS Lesser
242.5 Middle-Agents for the Internet - Decker, Sycara, Williamson (1997)(Correct)
Like middle-men in physical commerce, middleagents
support the flow of information in electronic
commerce, assisting in locating and connecting the
ultimate information provider with the ultimate info... / information agents. In Proc. Autonomous Agents pages - . ACM br organizations in a real multiagent system concentrating on the speed
238.2 Multiagent Systems: A Survey from a Machine Learning Perspective - Stone, Veloso (1997)(Correct)
Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) has existed as a subfield of AI for less than two decades. DAI is concerned with systems that consist of multiple independent entities that interact in a doma... / the implications of multiple autonomous agents interacting in the real br Multiagent Systems A Survey from a Machine
234.2 ALLIANCE: An Architecture for Fault Tolerant Multi-Robot Cooperation - Parker (1998)(Correct)
ALLIANCE is a software architecture that facilitates the fault tolerant cooperative control of teams of heterogeneous mobile robots performing missions composed of loosely coupled subtasks that may ha... / may be increased by employing autonomous agents. One approach to creating
229.7 Ontology-based Web Agents - Luke, Spector, Rager, Hendler (1997)(Correct)
This paper describes SHOE, a set of Simple HTML Ontology Extensions which allow World-Wide Web authors to annotate their pages with semantic knowledge such as "I am a graduate student" or "This person... / International Conference on Autonomous Agents AA- . Copyright
222.2 Collaborative Interface Agents - Lashkari, Metral, Maes (1994)(Correct)
Interface agents are semi-intelligent systems which assist users with daily computer-based tasks. Recently, various researchers have proposed a learning approach towards building such agents and some ... / Malone Yu have semi-autonomous agents that consist of a br the do-it threshold the agent autonomously takes the action. The
211.5 Itinerant Agents for Mobile Computing - Chess, Grosof, Harrison, Levine.. (1995)(Correct)
This paper describes an abstract framework for itinerant agents that can be used to implement secure, remote applications in large, public networks such as the Internet or the IBM Global Network. Itin... / electronic commerce by means of mobile agents The HotJava web browser br Keywords Intelligent Agents Mobile Computing Script Languages
209.0 Model Checking of Message Sequence Charts - Alur, Yannakakis (1999)(Correct)
Scenario-based specifications such as message sequence charts
(MSC) offer an intuitive and visual way of describing design requirements.
Such specifications focus on message exchanges among communic... / to asynchronous processes or autonomous agents. Messages exchanged between
206.1 Commitments and Conventions: The Foundation of Coordination in.. - Jennings (1993)(Correct)
Distributed Artificial Intelligence systems, in which multiple agents interact to improve their
individual performance and to enhance the system's overall utility, are becoming an increasingly
pervasi... / in the community eg with autonomous agents the global search space is br Foundation of Coordination in MultiAgent Systems NICK R. JENNINGS
204.2 The RoboCup Synthetic Agent Challenge 97 - Kitano, Tambe, Stone (1997)(Correct)
RoboCup Challenge offers a set of challenges for intelligent agent researchers using a friendly competition in a dynamic, real-time, multiagent domain. While RoboCup in general envisions longer range ... / such as design principles of autonomous agents multi-agent collaboration br sensor fusion multiagent systems in general behavior
202.8 COOL: A Language for Describing Coordination in Multi Agent Systems - Barbuceanu, Fox (1995)(Correct)
Agent interaction takes place at several levels. Current work in the
ARPA Knowledge Sharing Effort has addressed the information
content level by the KIF language and the intentional level by the
KQML... / F.Coordinating Plans of Autonomous Agents Lecture Notes in Artificial br Describing Coordination in Multi Agent Systems Mihai Barbuceanu and
199.9 Auction Protocols for Decentralized Scheduling - Wellman, Walsh, Wurman, MacKie-Mason (1998)(Correct)
Scheduling is the problem of allocating resources to alternative possible
uses over designated periods of time. Several have proposed (and some
have tried) market-based approaches to decentralized ver... / uses are represented by autonomous agents. Market mechanisms use br International Conference on Multiagent Systems pages - San
195.7 Autonomous Interface Agents - Lieberman (1997)(Correct)
Two branches of the trend towards "agents" that are gaining
currency are interface agents, software that actively assists a
user in operating an interactive interface, and autonomous
agents, software ... / interactive interface and autonomous agents software that takes action br that are both interface agents and autonomous agents. We explore some
194.2 Communicative Actions for Artificial Agents - Cohen, Levesque (1995)(Correct)
This paper considers the semantics of the agent communication
language KQML. By using this language
for communication, agents will be able to request
and provide services. Indeed, numerous projects ha... / it is hard to see how any multiagent system could work robustly.
190.9 A Hierarchical Approach to Wrapper Induction - Muslea, Minton, Knoblock (1999)(Correct)
With the tremendous amount of information that becomes available on the Web on a daily basis, the ability to quickly develop information agents has become a crucial problem. A vital component of any W... / of text. Proceedings of Autonomous Agents AA- - .
187.6 Teleo-Reactive Programs for Agent Control - Nilsson (1994)(Correct)
A formalism is presented for computing and organizing actions for autonomous agents
in dynamic environments. We introduce the notion of teleo-reactive (T-R) programs whose
execution entails the constr... / and organizing actions for autonomous agents in dynamic environments. We
182.9 Programming languages for mobile code - Thorn (1997)(Correct)
Sun's announcement of the programming language Java more than anything popularized the notion of mobile code, that is, programs travelling on a heterogeneous network and automatically executes upon ... / document Rou b ffl Mobile agents are code-containing objects
179.7 Software Agents: An Overview - Nwana (1996)(Correct)
Agent software is a rapidly developing area of research. However, the overuse of the word `agent' has tended to mask the fact that, in reality, there is a truly heterogeneous body of research being ca... / robots personal agents autonomous agents and personal assistants. To br userbots robots personal agents autonomous agents and personal
177.1 Coordination Models and Languages - Papadopoulos, ARBAB (1998)(Correct)
A new class of models, formalisms and mechanisms has recently evolved for describing concurrent and distributed computations based on the concept of "coordination". The purpose of a coordination model... / forum used by a number of autonomous agents forming a multi-agent system br autonomous agents forming a multi-agent system to solve a problem in a
172.7 A Perspective on Software Agents Research - Nwana, Nduma (1999)(Correct)
This paper sets out, ambitiously, to present a brief reappraisal of software agents research. Evidently, software
agent technology has promised much. However some five years after the word `agent' ca... / International Conference on Autonomous Agents AA ICMAS PAAM and AA br need to visualise and debug multiagent systems -and this is a
172.7 Diagnosis as an Integral Part of Multi-Agent Adaptability - Horling, Lesser, Vincent, Bazzan.. (1999)(Correct)
Agents working under real world conditions may face an environment capable of changing rapidly from one moment to the next, either through perceived faults, unexpected interactions or adversarial intr... / controlled by an individual autonomous agent. The intelligent home br of an intelligent home multiagent system Lesser et al. In
171.4 An Autonomous Spacecraft Agent Prototype - Pell, Bernard, Chien, Gat.. (1998)(Correct)
This paper describes the New Millennium Remote Agent (NMRA) architecture for autonomous
spacecraft control systems. The architecture supports challenging requirements of the autonomous
spacecraft do... / plan execution in embedded autonomous agents. In Pryor .
171.4 A Meta-Model for the Analysis and Design of Organizations in.. - Ferber, Gutknecht (1998)(Correct)
This paper presents a generic meta-model of multi-agent
systems based on organizational concepts such as groups,
roles and structures. This model, called AALAADIN, defines
a very simple description of... / and P. Morignot. Societes of autonomous agents and their reorganization. br by allowing designers of multiagent systems to describe any kind of
171.4 Towards Mobile Cryptography - Sander, Tschudin (1998)(Correct)
Mobile code technology has become a driving force for recent advances in distributed
systems. The concept of mobility of executable code raises major security problems.
In this paper we deal with the ... / WEB browser active content Mobile agent systems allow programs to
168.1 Designing a Family of Coordination Algorithms - Decker, Lesser (1995)(Correct)
Many researchers have shown that there is no single best organization or coordination mechanism for all environments. This paper discusses the design and implementation of an extendable family of coor... / Coordinating Plans of Autonomous Agents. Springer-Verlag Berlin br International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems ICMAS- San Francisco
163.6 Architectural Design Patterns for Multiagent Coordination - Sandra Hayden (1999)(Correct)
This paper presents our first step towards agent-oriented software
engineering, focusing on the area of coordinated multi-agent systems.
In multi-agent systems, the interactions between the agents are... / the architectural design for multiagent systems allowing researchers and br on the area of coordinated multi-agent systems. In multi-agent systems
159.9 Trust and Partial Typing in Open Systems of Mobile Agents - Riely, Hennessy (1998)(Correct)
We present a partially-typed semantics for Dp, a distributed p-calculus. The semantics
is designed for mobile agents in open distributed systems in which some sites may harbor
malicious intentions. ... / Typing in Open Systems of Mobile Agents James Riely and Matthew
158.0 Modeling Adaptive Autonomous Agents - Maes (1994)(Correct)
One category of researchers in artificial life is concerned with modeling and building so-called adaptive autonomous agents. Autonomous agents are systems that inhabit a dynamic, unpredictable environ... / Modeling Adaptive Autonomous Agents Pattie Maes MIT br so-called adaptive autonomous agents. Autonomous agents are systems that
157.4 The Safe-Tcl Security Model - Ousterhout, Levy, Welch (1997)(Correct)
Safe-Tcl is a mechanism for controlling the execution of programs written in the Tcl
scripting language. It allows untrusted scripts (applets) to be executed while preventing
damage to the environment... /
154.2 Pitfalls of Agent-Oriented Development - Wooldridge, Jennings (1998)(Correct)
While the theoretical and experimental foundations of agent-based
systems are becoming increasingly well understood, comparatively
little effort has been devoted to understanding the pragmatics of
(mu... / Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World br so on required to create a multiagent system. As a result almost every
154.2 Time Limited Blackbox Security: Protecting Mobile Agents From.. - Hohl (1998)(Correct)
In this paper, an approach to partially solve one of the most difficult aspects of security of mobile agents systems is presented, the problem of malicious hosts. This problem consists in the possib... / Blackbox Security Protecting Mobile Agents From Malicious Hosts
150.7 Challenges in Evolving Controllers for Physical Robots - Mataric, Cliff (1996)(Correct)
This paper discusses the feasibility of applying evolutionary methods
to automatically generating controllers for physical mobile robots.
We overview the state of the art in the field, describe some o... / to a series of problems in autonomous agent control. In Reynolds
150.7 Intelligent Agents: An Emerging Technology for Next Generation.. - Magedanz, Rothermel, Krause (1996)(Correct)
The telecommunications environment is changing its face towards an open market of information services where the vision is "information any time, at any place, in any form". Within this electronic mar... / the prerequisite for multi-agent systems. Agent Mobility In br basic properties. Focusing on mobile agents which could be considered as
148.9 An Adaptive Web Page Recommendation Service - Balabanovic (1997)(Correct)
An adaptive recommendation service seeks to adapt
to its users, providing increasingly personalized recommendations
over time. In this paper we introduce
the "Fab" adaptive web page recommendation ser... / International Conference on Autonomous Agents February Marina del
144.6 Reinforcement Learning in the Multi-Robot Domain - Mataric (1997)(Correct)
This paper describes a formulation of reinforcement learning that
enables learning in noisy, dynamic environemnts such as in the complex
concurrent multi-robot learning domain. The methodology involve... / been an on-going challenge in autonomous agent research and is being
143.2 Learning to coordinate without sharing information - Sen, Sekaran, Hale (1994)(Correct)
Researchers in the field of Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) have been developing efficient mechanisms to coordinate the activities of multiple autonomous agents. The need for coordination ar... / the activities of multiple autonomous agents. The need for coordination br the coordination problem in multiagent systems. In a reinforcement
142.8 Autonomous Agents for Business Process Management - Jennings, Norman, Faratin, O'Brien.. (2000)(Correct)
Traditional approaches to managing business processes are often inadequate for large-scale, organisation
-wide, dynamic settings. However since Internet and Intranet technologies have become widespr... / Autonomous Agents for Business Process br have considered using multi-agent systems for various aspects of
142.8 A Social Semantics for Agent Communication Languages - Munindar Singh Department (2000)(Correct)
The ability to communicate is one of the salient properties of agents. Although a number of agent
communication languages (ACLs) have been developed, obtaining a suitable formal semantics for ACLs
rem... / web-based multiagent systems. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems br of the greatest challenges of multiagent systems theory. Previous semantics
142.8 Design Issues in Mobile Agent Programming Systems - Karnik, Tripathi (1998)(Correct)
We describe the mobile agent paradigm which is becoming increasingly popular for network-centric
programming, and compare it with earlier paradigms for distributed computing from which it has evolved.... / Design Issues in Mobile Agent Programming Systems br problems. Keywords Mobile agents Mobile code Distributed objects
142.0 Distributed Intelligent Agents - Sycara, Decker, Pannu, Williamson.. (1996)(Correct)
We are investigating techniques for developing distributed and
adaptive collections of agents that coordinate to retrieve, filter and
fuse information relevant to the user, task and situation, as well... / Co-evolution and Learning in Multiagent Systems . br address the problem by using multi-agent systems to access filter
140.7 Communication in Reactive Multiagent Robotic Systems - Balch, Arkin (1994)(Correct)
Multiple cooperating robots are able to complete many tasks more quickly and reliably than one robot alone. Communication between the robots can multiply their capabilities and effectiveness, but to w... / Navigation. Designing Autonomous Agents ed. P. Maes Bradford-MIT br mobile robots. Keywords multiagent system mobile robots social
136.3 Shopbots and Pricebots - Greenwald, Kephart (1999)(Correct)
Shopbots are agents that automatically search
the Internet to obtain information about prices
and other attributes of goods and services.
They herald a future in which autonomous
agents profoundly inf... / They herald a future in which autonomous agents profoundly influence
133.3 Mobile Robot Localization using Landmarks - Betke, Gurvits (1995)(Correct)
We describe an efficient method for localizing a mobile robot in an environment with landmarks. We assume that the robot can identify these landmarks and measure their bearings relative to each other.... / its environment. Consider an autonomous agent which could be a mobile
131.9 A Sanctuary for Mobile Agents - Yee (1997)(Correct)
ly, this is a circuit of the (complete) graph connecting the airline servers,
and the originator may chose this circuit at the time of agent dispatch.
At any honest server, the agent code and its read... / A Sanctuary for Mobile Agents Bennet S. Yee April
129.3 Artificial Life and Real Robots - Brooks (1992)(Correct)
The first part of this paper explores the general issues in using Artificial Life techniques to program actual mobile robots. In particular it explores the difficulties inherent in transferring progra... / the problems of building an autonomous agent that physically is an
127.6 Designing Behaviors for Information Agents - Decker, Pannu, Sycara, Williamson (1997)(Correct)
To facilitate the rapid development and open system interoperability
of autonomous agents we need to carefully specify and
effectively implement various classes of agent behaviors. Our
current focus i... / system interoperability of autonomous agents we need to carefully specify br that agents are part of multi-agent systems. This has the implication
127.2 Efficient Concurrency Control for Broadcast Environments - Shanmugasundaram (1999)(Correct)
Maha 98] S. Mahajan et al., "Grouping Techniques for Update Propagation in Intermittently Connected Databases," Proc. Int'l Conf. on Data Eng, 1998, pp. 46-53. [Mass 96] A. Massari et al., "Support... / S. Papastavrou et al.Mobile Agents for WWW Distributed Database
125.7 Coordinating Multiagent Applications on the WWW: A Reference.. - Ciancarini, Tolksdorf, Vitali.. (1998)(Correct)
The original Web did not support multiuser, interactive applications. This shortcoming is being studied, and several
approaches have been proposed to use the Web as a platform for programming Internet... / homeagent looks like an autonomous agent. It has full access to br to support fault-tolerance and mobile agents as well. Index
121.7 Market-Oriented Programming: Some Early Lessons - Wellman (1995)(Correct)
As the other chapters in this volume attest, the market-based approach offers a useful way to conceptualize and analyze distributed control problems, as well as to design and implement actual distribu... / in a distributed system as autonomous agents. In order to reasonably
121.7 Concurrent Objects in a Process Calculus - Pierce, Turner (1995)(Correct)
A programming style based on concurrent objects arises almost inevitably
in languages where processes communicate by exchanging data on channels.
Using the pict language as an experimental testbed, we... / an unstructured collection of autonomous agents communicating in arbitrary
119.9 A Market Protocol for Decentralized Task Allocation and Scheduling.. - Walsh (1998)(Correct)
I present a decentralized market protocol for allocating and scheduling
tasks among agents to form supply chains. The protocol resolves
constraints arising from hierarchical subtask relationships and
... / an open question as to how autonomous agents would actually choose to br domain. Overview In a multiagent system MAS we must often address
119.9 A Market Protocol for Decentralized Task Allocation - Walsh, Wellman (1998)(Correct)
We present a decentralized market protocol for allocating
tasks among agents that contend for scarce resources.
Agents trade tasks and resources at prices determined by an
auction protocol. We specify... / negotiation model between autonomous agents. Robotics and Autonomous br . Introduction In a multiagent system MAS we must often address
119.9 Market-based Resource Control for Mobile Agents - Bredin, Kotz, Rus (1998)(Correct)
Mobile agents are programs that can migrate from machine
to machine in a heterogeneous, partially disconnected network.
As mobile agents move across a network, they consume
resources. We discuss a sys... / To appear in Proceedings of Autonomous Agents May . Copyright br markets and their benefit to multiagent systems. Several types of auctions
119.9 Negotiation Decision Functions for Autonomous Agents - Faratin, Sierra, Jennings (1998)(Correct)
We present a formal model of negotiation between autonomous agents. The purpose
of the negotiation is to reach an agreement about the provision of a service by
one agent for another. The model defines... / Decision Functions for Autonomous Agents Peyman Faratin Carles br evaluated. Keywords Multi-agent systems Negotiation Business
119.1 Flexible Double Auctions for Electronic Commerce: Theory and.. - Wurman, Walsh, Wellman (1997)(Correct)
We consider a general family of auction protocols that admit multiple
buyers and sellers, and determine market-clearing prices. We
analyze the economic incentives facing participants in such auctions,... / International Conference on Autonomous Agents pages - . br for electronic commerce and multiagent systems we have built the
119.1 Challenger : A Multi-agent System for Distributed Resource Allocation - Chavez, Moukas, Maes (1997)(Correct)
In this paper we introduce Challenger, a multiagent system that performs completely distributed resource allocation. Challenger consists of agents which individually manage local resources; these agen... / Moukas and Pattie Maes Autonomous Agents Group MIT Media Laboratory br we introduce Challenger a multiagent system that performs completely
119.1 Challenger: A Multi-agent System for Distributed Resource Allocation - Chavez, Moukas, Maes (1997)(Correct)
In this paper we introduce Challenger, a multiagent
system that performs completely distributed
resource allocation. Challenger consists
of agents which individually manage local
resources; these agen... / Moukas and Pattie Maes Autonomous Agents Group MIT Media Lab br we introduce Challenger a multiagent system that performs completely
118.8 Mobile Agent Security and Telescript - Tardo, Valente (1996)(Correct)
Telescript is a software technology for building distributed
applications using the mobile agent paradigm. Telescript
mobile agents are migrating processes capable of
being executed on any Telescript ... / Mobile Agent Security and Telescript
118.1 Mobile agents in distributed information retrieval - Brewington, Gray, Moizumi, Kotz.. (1999)(Correct)
A mobile agent is an executing program that can migrate during execution from machine to machine in
a heterogeneous network. On each machine, the agent interacts with stationary service agents and oth... / International Conference on Autonomous Agents pages - . ACM Press br Mobile agents in distributed information
118.1 eMediator: A Next Generation Electronic Commerce Server - Sandholm (1999)(Correct)
This paper presents eMediator, a next generation electronic commerce server that demonstrates some ways in which AI, algorithmic support, and game theoretic incentive engineering can jointly improve t... / International Conference on Autonomous Agents AGENTS pages - br auction in computational multiagent systems. In Proceedings of the
118.1 Reliable Communication for Highly Mobile Agents - Murphy, Picco (1999)(Correct)
The provision of a reliable communication infrastructure for mobile agents is still an open research issue. The challenge to reliability we address in this work does not come from the possibility of f... / Communication for Highly Mobile Agents Amy L. Murphy Gian Pietro
116.0 A Learning Approach to Personalized Information Filtering - Sheth (1994)(Correct)
A personalized information filtering system must specialize to current interests of the user
and adapt as they change over time. It must also explore newer domains for potentially
interesting informat... / to the members of the Autonomous Agents Group do we have a name
114.2 AntNet: Distributed Stigmergetic Control for Communications Networks - Di Caro, Dorigo (1998)(Correct)
This paper introduces AntNet, a novel approach to the adaptive learning of routing tables in communications networks. AntNet is a distributed, mobile agents based Monte Carlo system that was inspired ... / International Conference on Autonomous Agents pp. - . ACM Press. br P.Veloso M. M. Multiagent systems A survey from a machine
114.2 Patterns of Intelligent and Mobile Agents - Kendall, Krishna, Pathak, Suresh (1998)(Correct)
Agent systems must have a strong foundation; one approach that has been successfully applied to other kinds of software is patterns. This paper presents a collection of patterns for agents. 2. MOTIVAT... / Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Worlds br the Practical Application of Multi Agent Systems London .
113.0 A Methodology and Modelling Technique for Systems of BDI Agents - Kinny, Georgeff, Rao (1996)(Correct)
The construction of large-scale embedded software systems demands the use of design
methodologies and modelling techniques that support abstraction, inheritance, modularity,
and other mechanisms for r... / Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World br and preventing error. If multi-agent systems are to become widely
109.0 General Principles Of Learning-Based Multi-Agent Systems - Wolpert, Wheeler, al. (1999)(Correct)
We consider the problem of how to design large decentralized
multi-agent systems (MAS's) in an automated fashion, with
little or no hand-tuning. Our approach has each agent run
a reinforcement learnin... / International Conference on Autonomous Agents pp xxx-xxx . iii. br learning cooperative multiagent systems. In Proceedings of the
109.0 Sequential Optimality and Coordination in Multiagent Systems - Boutilier (1999)(Correct)
Coordination of agent activities is a key problem in multiagent systems. Set in a larger decision theoretic context, the existence of coordination problems leads to difficulty in evaluating the utilit... / and Coordination in Multiagent Systems Craig Boutilier
107.2 Evaluation of KQML as an Agent Communication Language - Mayfield, Labrou, Finin (1996)(Correct)
This chapter discusses the desirable features of languages and protocols
for communication among intelligent information agents. These desiderata
aredividedintosevencategories:form,content,semantics... / state of an artificial autonomous agent with a particular attention br for describing coordination in multiagentsystems.
102.1 Agent-Based Software Engineering - Wooldridge (1997)(Correct)
The technology of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems seems set to radically
alter the way in which complex, distributed, open systems are conceptualized and implemented.
The purpose of this pa... / The concept of an intelligent autonomous agent did not appear in a vacuum. br The formal definitions of agents and autonomous agents rely on inheriting
102.1 Robot Shaping: Experiment In Behavior Engineering - Dorigo, Colombetti (1997)(Correct)
its performance. In
fact, we use the expression robot shaping to denote the use of learning as a means to translate
suggestions coming from an external trainer into an effective control strategy that... / current research on learning autonomous agents is that the trainer plays a
102.1 ARACHNID: Adaptive Retrieval Agents Choosing Heuristic Neighborhoods.. - Menczer (1997)(Correct)
ARACHNID is a distributed algorithm for information discovery in large, dynamic, distributed environments such as the World Wide Web. The approach is based on a distributed, adaptive population of int... / browsing at the user's end. Autonomous agents or semi-intelligent br expect to see servers allowing mobile agents to use up some CPU cycles in
101.4 Advantages of a Leveled Commitment Contracting Protocol - Sandholm, Lesser (1995)(Correct)
In automated negotiation systems consisting of self-interested agents, contracts have traditionally been binding. Such contracts do not allow agents to efficiently accommodate future events. Game theo... / diseconomies of scale. In multiagent systems consisting of
99.9 Coalition Structure Generation with Worst Case Guarantees - Sandholm, Larson, Andersson.. (1999)(Correct)
Coalition formation is a key topic in multiagent systems. One may prefer a
coalition structure that maximizes the sum of the values of the coalitions, but
often the number of coalition structures is t... / International Conference on Autonomous Agents AGENTS pages - br formation is a key topic in multiagent systems. One may prefer a coalition
98.5 Issues and Approaches in the Design of Collective Autonomous Agents - Mataric (1995)(Correct)
The problem of synthesizing and analyzing collective autonomous agents has only recently begun to be practically studied by the robotics community. This paper overviews the most prominent directions o... / in the Design of Collective Autonomous Agents Maja J Matari'c Volen br Problem Solving DPS and Multi-Agent Systems MAS Rosenschein
98.5 Foundations of a Logical Approach to Agent Programming - Lespérance, Levesque, Lin.. (1995)(Correct)
This paper describes a novel approach to high-level agent programming based on a highly developed logical theory of action. The user provides a specification of the agents' basic actions (precondition... / International Conference on Multiagent Systems San Francisco CA June br our framework to deal with multi-agent systems. As will become clear the
98.5 Mobile Agents: Are They a Good Idea? - Chess, Harrison, Kershenbaum (1995)(Correct)
Mobile agents are programs, typically written in a script language, which may be
dispatched from a client computer and transported to a remote server computer for
execution. Several authors have sugge... / pages IBM Research Report Mobile Agents Are They a Good Idea David
97.8 Protecting Mobile Agents through Tracing - Vigna (1997)(Correct)
Mobile code systems provide a flexible and powerful platform to build distributed applications in an Internet scale, but they rise strong requirements from the security point of view. Security issues ... / Protecting Mobile Agents through Tracing Giovanni
97.8 A Service-Oriented Negotiation Model between Autonomous Agents - Sierra, Faratin, Jennings (1997)(Correct)
We present a formal model of negotiation between autonomous
agents. The purpose of the negotiation is to reach an agreement
about the provision of a service by one agent for another. The model defin... / Negotiation Model between Autonomous Agents Carles Sierra br International Conference on MultiAgent Systems pages - San
97.8 Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Part Of (1997)(Correct)
202, 191, 1903, 207, 1559, 208,
209, 304, 206, 205, 85, 204, 83, 187, 1909,
1534, 1177].
Abstraction [716, 1011, 1767, 1782].
Abstractions [157]. AC [1255].
AC-Unification [1255].
Accelerated [10... / supporting the evolution of autonomous agents' tactical and operational br language for cognitive multi-agent systems. Lecture Notes in
97.1 Nested Java Processes: OS Structure for Mobile Code - Tullmann, Lepreau (1998)(Correct)
The majority of work on protection in single-language
mobile code environments focuses on information security
issues and depends on the language environment for
solutions to the problems of resource ... / to authenticate and manage the mobile agents in such a system is required.
97.1 A Framework for Argumentation-Based Negotiation - Sierra, Jennings, Noriega, Parsons (1998)(Correct)
Many autonomous agents operate in domains in which the cooperation
of their fellow agents cannot be guaranteed. In such domains negotiation
is essential to persuade others of the value of co-operati... / Abstract. Many autonomous agents operate in domains in which br In particular we consider a multi-agent system for managing a British
95.6 Amalthaea: Information Discovery and Filtering using a Multiagent.. - Moukas (1996)(Correct)
Agents are semi-intelligent programs that assist the user in performing repetitive and time-consuming tasks. Information discovery and information filtering are a suitable domain for applying agent te... / Ideas drawn from the field of autonomous agents and artificial life are br The intriguing issue in such multiagent systems is to find ways of allowing
93.6 An Introduction to Software Agents - Bradshaw (1997)(Correct)
ion and delegation: Agents can be made extensible and composable in ways that common iconic interface objects cannot. Because we can "communicate" with them, they can share our goals, rather than simp... / II that anything resembling autonomous agents has begun to appear. Norman br Coevolution and Learning in Multiagent Systems Papers from the AAAI
92.7 COLLAGEN: When Agents Collaborate with People - Rich, Sidner (1996)(Correct)
We take the position that autonomous agents, when they interact with people, should be governed by the same principles that underlie human collaboration. These principles come from research in computa... / We take the position that autonomous agents when they interact with
92.7 Mobile Agents White Paper - White (1996)(Correct)
this paper.
Introduction
New products
New applications
New networks
About "Mobile Agents"
Enabling mobile agents
Mobile agent paradigm
Mobile agent concepts
Mobile agent technology
Programming mobile ... / of General Magic's original mobile agent system Telescript Please br Agents Enabling mobile agents Mobile agent paradigm Mobile agent
91.4 Language Issues in Mobile Program Security - Volpano, Smith (1998)(Correct)
Many programming languages have been developed and implemented
for mobile code environments. They are typically quite expressive.
But while security is an important aspect of any mobile code
technol... / in a special issue of LNCS on Mobile Agents and Security. One can
91.4 Towards Multi-Swarm Problem Solving in Networks - White, Pagurek (1998)(Correct)
This paper describes how multiple interacting swarms of
adaptive mobile agents can be used to solve problems in
networks. The paper introduces a new architectural
description for an agent that is chem... / and Coordinated Behavior in Autonomous Agents. Journal of Applied br a formal description of a multiagent system that relies on Swarm
90.9 The JavaSeal Mobile Agent Kernel - Bryce, Vitek (1999)(Correct)
Mobile agents show promise as a new distributed programming paradigm in which locality plays a central role --- programs that are able to move closer to their data can overcome limitations of connecti... / The JavaSeal Mobile Agent Kernel Ciar'an Bryce
90.9 Security in the Ajanta Mobile Agent System - Karnik (1999)(Correct)
This paper describes the security architecture of
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NEERAN M. KARNIK and ANAND R. TRIPATHI
Department of Computer Science, Uni... / Security in the Ajanta Mobile Agent System NEERAN M. KARNIK
90.9 Cooperating Mobile Agents for Mapping Networks - Minar, Kramer, Maes (1999)(Correct)
Contemporary computer networks are heterogeneous; even a single network consists of many kinds of processors and communications channels. But few programming tools embrace, or even acknowledge, this... / the dynamics of mobile multi-agent systems. The data of interest the br Cooperating Mobile Agents for Mapping Networks Nelson
90.9 Pickling threads state in the Java system - Bouchenak (1999)(Correct)
Java provides a serialization mechanism which
allows the capture and restoration of objects' state
and therefore the migration of objects between
machines. It also allows classes to be dynamically
lo... / led to the development of mobile agent systems whose main advantage
89.3 Behavior-Based Control: Examples from Navigation, Learning, and Group .. - Mataric (1997)(Correct)
This paper describes the main properties of
behavior-based approaches to control. Different
approaches to designing and using behaviors
as basic units for control, representation,
and learning are ill... / of basic approaches to autonomous agent control reactive br Adaptation and Learning in Multi-Agent Systems'Vol. Lecture Notes in
86.9 An HTTP-based Infrastructure for Mobile Agents - Lingnau, Drobnik, Dömel (1995)(Correct)
Mobile agents are an emerging technology attracting interest from the fields of distributed systems, information retrieval, electronic commerce and artificial intelligence. We present an infrastruct... / consists of mobile agents' autonomous programs that move about br HTTP-based Infrastructure for Mobile Agents Anselm Lingnau Oswald
86.4 Goal Processing In Autonomous Agents - Beaudoin (1994)(Correct)
This technical definition will only make sense toe reader by Ch. 4, once goals and management processes have been described. All that matters forrs section is that a difference between goals and pertu... / Goal Processing In Autonomous Agents By Luc Beaudoin A Thesis
85.1 The Saphira Architecture: A Design for Autonomy - Konolige, Myers, Ruspini, Saffiotti (1997)(Correct)
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence (JETAI) 9, 1997, 215-235.
Special issue on Architectures for Physical Agents.
Mobile robots, if they areto perform useful tasks andbecom... / a scenario in which the autonomous agent must perform. To push our br International. Autonomous Mobile Agents What are the minimal
82.4 Efficient Learning and Planning Within the Dyna Framework - Peng, Williams (1993)(Correct)
Sutton's Dyna framework provides a novel and computationally appealing way to integrate learning, planning, and reacting in autonomous agents. Examined here is a class of strategies designed to enhanc... / planning and reacting in autonomous agents. Examined here is a class
81.8 The Cooperative Problem-Solving Process - Wooldridge, Jennings (1999)(Correct)
We present a model of cooperative problem solving that describes the process from its beginning,
with some agent recognising the potential for cooperation with respect to one of its
goals, through to ... / CPS in which a group of autonomous agents choose to work together to br Model Formalism in AI and multi-agent systems research plays many roles
81.8 Multiagent Systems Engineering: A Methodology And Language for.. - DeLoach (1999)(Correct)
This paper overviews MaSE and provides a high-level
introduction to one critical component used within
MaSE, the Agent Modeling Language. Details on the
Agent Definition Language and detailed agent de... / Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent - br Systems AOIS -Multiagent Systems Engineering A Methodology
81.8 MailCat: An Intelligent Assistant for Organizing E-Mail - Segal, Kephart (1999)(Correct)
While most mail reader applications allow users to file messages
into folders, in practice this task tends to be tedious.
For each message, the user must first decide which folder
is most appropriate.... / International Conference on Autonomous Agents. Copyright c fl by
81.1 Learning of Cooperative actions in multi-agent systems: a case study.. - Matsubara, Noda, Hiraki (1996)(Correct)
From the standpoint of multi-agent systems, soccer
(association football), which is just one of usual team
sports, make a good example of problems in the real
world which is moderately abstracted. We ... / Coevolution and Learning in Multiagent Systems Figure Soccer players br of Cooperative actions in multi-agent systems a case study of pass play
81.1 A Formal Framework for Agency and Autonomy - Luck, d'Inverno (1995)(Correct)
With the recent rapid growth of interest in MultiAgent Systems, both in artificial intelligence and software engineering, has come an associated difficulty concerning basic terms and concepts. In part... / objects agents and autonomous agents where agents are viewed as br comprising objects agents and autonomous agents where agents are
80.8 Entertaining Agents: A Sociological Case Study - Foner (1997)(Correct)
Traditional AI has not concerned itself extensively with sociology nor with what emotional reactions might be produced in its users. On the other hand, entertainment is very concerned indeed with thes... / International Conference on Autonomous Agents Agents Marina del
79.9 Adaptive Behavior in Autonomous Agents - Ziemke (1998)(Correct)
This paper gives an overview of the bottom-up approach to artificial intelligence
(AI), commonly referred to as behavior-oriented AI. The behavior-oriented approach,
with its focus on the interaction ... / Adaptive Behavior in Autonomous Agents originally written
78.2 Multiagent coordination with learning classifier systems - Sen, Sekaran (1996)(Correct)
this paper, we evaluate a particular reinforcement
learning methodology, a genetic algorithm based
machine learning mechanism known as classifier systems
[ Holland, 1986 ] for developing action polici... / of multiple agents Multiagent systems are a particular type of DAI
78.2 Mobile agents for mobile computing - Gray, Kotz, Nog, Rus, Cybenko (1996)(Correct)
Mobile agents are programs that can move through a network under their own control, migrating from host to host and interacting with other agents and resources on each. We argue that these mobile, aut... / We argue that these mobile autonomous agents have the potential to br Mobile agents for mobile computing Robert
78.2 Adaptive Load Balancing: A Study in Multi-Agent Learning - Schaerf, Shoham, Tennenholtz (1995)(Correct)
We study the process of multi-agent reinforcement learning in the context of load balancing in a distributed system, without use of either central coordination or explicit communication. We first defi... / a general model where active autonomous agents have to select among br the lesson to the design of multi-agent systems. We define a formal yet
76.5 Towards a Social Level Characterisation of Socially Responsible Agents - Jennings, Campos (1997)(Correct)
This paper presents a high-level framework for analysing and designing intelligent
agents. The framework's key abstraction mechanism is a new computer level called the
Social Level. The Social Level ... / design in which individual autonomous agents rather than the overall br purposes of this work let multiagent systems in which both of these
76.5 Many Robots Make Short Work - Guzzoni, Cheyer, Julia, Konolige (1997)(Correct)
this article, we'll briefly describe Saphira (the robot control program), the Open
Agent Architecture, and then discuss our implementation of multirobot planning and control using these
tools. unknown / a framework for constructing multiagent systems that has been used by SRI
76.2 Informational Redundancy and Resource Bounds in Dialogue - Walker (1993)(Correct)
INFORMATIONAL REDUNDANCY AND RESOURCE BOUNDS IN DIALOGUE Marilyn A. Walker Aravind K. Joshi and Ellen F. Prince (cosupervisors) This thesis investigates the relationship between language behavior and ... / and inference. IRUs help autonomous agents coordinate on a