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10909.4 The Logical Modelling of Computational Multi-Agent Systems - Wooldridge (1992)(Correct)
THE aim of this thesis is to investigate logical formalisms for describing, reasoning about, specifying, and perhaps
ultimately verifying the properties of systems composed of multiple intelligent com... / properties of intention An autonomous agent should act on its br methods for reasoning about multiagent systems. However the techniques he
8889.2 Emotional Agents - Wright (1997)(Correct)
this document.
9.5.2 A comparison of CUE and libido unknown Emotional Agents
Ian Paul Wright
Faculty of Science
of the
University of Birmingham
for the degree of
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
School of Compu... / . Requirements for autonomous agents . br will be present in adaptive multiagent systems. This is a generalisation
8886.0 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
8819.1 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
8819.0 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
8326.2 Learning To Solve Markovian Decision Processes - Singh (1994)(Correct)
LEARNING TO SOLVE MARKOVIAN DECISION PROCESSES February 1994 Satinder P. Singh B.Tech., INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NEW DELHI M.S., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHU... / . Learning and Autonomous Agents
8035.6 Instructable Autonomous Agents - Huffman (1994)(Correct)
INSTRUCTABLE AUTONOMOUS AGENTS
by
Scott Bradley Huffman
Chair: John E. Laird
In contrast to current intelligent systems, which must be laboriously programmed for each task
they are meant to perform, i... / Instructable Autonomous Agents by Scott Bradley Huffman
7831.1 Agent-Based Computing - Wooldridge (1997)(Correct)
This article is an introductory survey of agent-based computing. The article begins with an
overview of micro-level issues in agent-based systems: issues related to the design and construction
of indi... / components in DPS systems are autonomous agents in the sense described br with intelligent agents and multiagent systems. In the past few years
6772.5 Learning Situation-Specific Control In Multi-Agent Systems - Prasad (1997)(Correct)
LEARNING SITUATION-SPECIFIC CONTROL IN MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS May 1997 MARAM V. NAGENDRAPRASAD B.Tech., INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MADRAS M.S., INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MADRAS M.S., MASSACHUS... / that can be applied within multiagent systems MAS to let an agent learn br Situation-Specific Control In Multi-Agent Systems A Dissertation Presented
6465.2 From Resource Discovery to Knowledge Discovery on the Internet - Zaïane (1998)(Correct)
More than 50 years ago, at a time when modern computers didn't exist
yet, Vannevar Bush wrote about a multimedia digital library containing human
collective knowledge and filled with "trails" linking ... / class encompasses guided and autonomous agents that given a specified br resources are transmitted. Real mobile agents i.e. agents that move
6372.8 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
6366.0 Representing and Learning Routine Activities - Hexmoor (1995)(Correct)
A routine is a habitually repeated performance of some actions. Agents use routines to
guide their everyday activities and to enrich their abstract concepts about acts.
This dissertation addresses the... / GLAIR An Architecture for Autonomous Agents . Introduction and
6362.7 Viewer's Discretion: Host Security in Mobile Code Systems - Fong (1998)(Correct)
Interpreter
Using an abstract interpreter has been a very popular way of implementing safe and portable
computation. Mobile code languages like Java [53], Safe Tcl [84], Scheme48 [91], and Telescript... / results back to the client. Mobile Agent During its execution a
6327.7 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
6104.0 A Computational Model of Color Perception and Color Naming - Gisčle Lammens (1994)(Correct)
this document on a color monitor. It is interesting
to view this and related figures with a PostScript previewer like ghostview, where one can see the surface
being built up in 3D. This gives a better... / A An Architecture for Autonomous Agents A. Introduction and
5995.5 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
5708.6 The Living Machine Initiative - Weng (1996)(Correct)
While digital multimedia are entering all walks of life, breakthroughs in machine understanding of multimodal
information such as video, images, speech, language, and various forms of hand-written or ... / bases language understanding autonomous agents artificial intelligence
5600.0 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
5311.6 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
5271.5 Relating Theories of Actions and Reactive Control - Baral, Son (1997)(Correct)
In this paper
1
we give a formal characterization of reactive control using action
theories. In the process we formalize the notion of a reactive control program
being correct with respect to a give... / impractical for many kinds of autonomous agents particularly br international conference on multiagent systems. . RK S.
5088.7 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
5014.2 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
4904.6 A Study on Mobile Language Systems - Sekiguchi (1999)(Correct)
The mobile form of distributed computation, called mobile computation,
is investigated from the viewpoints of computational model, programming
language and implementation. The emphasis of this thesi... / for efficient execution of mobile agents ffl theories for mobile br states which constitute mobile agents. Mobile computation is a discourse
4798.4 Software Agents: A review - Green, Hurst, Nangle, Cunningham.. (1997)(Correct)
this document.
5 unknown Software Agents: A review
27 May 1997
Trinity College Dublin
Broadcom Éireann Research Ltd.
Shaw Green
Leon Hurst
Brenda Nangle
Dr. Pádraig Cunningham
Fergal Somers
Dr. Ri... / in real time upon a situated autonomous agent. This adds additional br for the modelling of multiagent systems there is no clear and
4760.4 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
4710.2 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
4607.7 Flexibly Instructable Agents - Huffman, Laird (1995)(Correct)
This paper presents an approach to learning from situated, interactive tutorial instruction
within an ongoing agent. Tutorial instruction is a flexible (and thus powerful)
paradigm for teaching tasks ... / The intelligent autonomous agents of the future will be called
4367.5 Towards a Medium for Agent-Based Interaction - Wood (1994)(Correct)
This report attempts to show that there is a fundamental need for the creation of a software medium that aids interaction of human and software agents by actively supporting various communication styl... / . User Agents Autonomous Agents Guiding Agents br Bird. Towards a taxonomy of multi-agent systems. International Journal of
4354.7 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
4251.6 Learning Adaptive Reactive Agents - Santamaria (1997)(Correct)
this document, we will use the term learning to denote the knowledge-level learning and the term adaptation to denote symbol-level learning. Intuitively, learning involves the acquisition of new knowl... / -iii SUMMARY An autonomous agent is an intelligent system that
4244.9 Behavior-Based Robotics as a Tool for Synthesis of Artificial.. - Mataric (1998)(Correct)
This paper appeared in Trends in Cognitive Science, Vol. 2, No. 3, March 1998, 82-87.) unknown Behavior-Based Robotics as a Tool for Synthesis of
Artificial Behavior and Analysis of Natural Behavior
... / Maes editor Designing Autonomous Agents pages - . MIT br computation and multi-agent systems. Ideas from Artificial
4147.4 A Plan Based Agent Architecture for Interpreting Natural Language.. - Ardissono, Boella, Lesmo (2000)(Correct)
This paper describes a plan-based agent architecture for modeling NL cooperative
dialogue; in particular, the paper focuses on the interpretation dialogue and
explanation of its coherence by means of ... / as an interaction among autonomous agents. Each agent has his own br In Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems pages - . Kluwer
4132.5 Explorations in Asynchronous Teams - Sachdev (1998)(Correct)
The subject of this thesis is the A-Teams formalism. This formalism facilitates the organization of multiple algorithms, encapsulated as autonomous agents, into cooperating teams to solve difficult pr... / algorithms encapsulated as autonomous agents into cooperating teams to br Singh Munindar P. Singh Multiagent Systems A Theoretical Framework for
4106.5 Mobile Agent Planning Problems - Moizumi (1998)(Correct)
Mobile agents have received much attention recently as a way to efficiently access distributed resources
in a low bandwidth network. Planning allows mobile agents to make the best use of the
available... / Based on this information an autonomous agent must plan its itinerary to br Mobile Agent Planning Problems A Thesis
4089.5 The Distributed Artificial Intelligence Melting Pot - Durfee (1991)(Correct)
this paper to DAI, therefore, include the rigorous development of an
alternative, ecological perspective, and the idea of modifying populations rather than individuals
(what I above called "trading" r... / via Negotiation Among Autonomous Agents in Non-Cooperative Domains br theory of communication for multiagent systems. In Proceedings of the
4015.4 Planning, Learning and Coordination in Multiagent Decision Processes - Boutilier(Correct)
There has been a growing interest in AI in the design of multiagent systems, especially in multiagent cooperative planning. In this paper, we investigate the extent to which methods from single-agent ... / design of systems of multiple autonomous agents that interact in various br in AI in the design of multiagent systems especially in multiagent
3970.5 Lifelong Robot Learning - Thrun, Mitchell (1993)(Correct)
Learning provides a useful tool for the automatic design of autonomous robots.
Recent research on learning robot control has predominantly focussed on learning single tasks
that were studied in isol... / has changed the design of autonomous agents and pointed out a promising
3940.6 The Application of Classical Information Retrieval Techniques to.. - James (1995)(Correct)
Object Description
General Discussion Map Reading
Photographic Interpretation Cartoon Description
Table 4.1: Message classes in classification experiments of Rose et al.
Now, an estimate of I(C i ; w ... / the development of so-called autonomous agents computer programs whose
3842.6 Cognitive Modeling and Group Adaptation in Intelligent Multi-Agent.. - Leonardo Garrido(Correct)
In the framework of meeting scheduling problems, we present an approach where for
every agent the behavior of other agents is explained in terms of a common cognitive
structure. This structure account... / of these products is a truly autonomous agent capable of communicating and br Artificial Intelligence and Multiagent Systems LANIA MIA-UV .
3813.2 STL++: A Coordination Language for Autonomy-based Multi-Agent Systems - Schumacher, Chantemargue, Krone..(Correct)
This paper introduces ECM, a new coordination model, and
one of his language binding, STL++. STL++ is aimed at making parallel
and distributed programs' construction easier by providing a set of
pow... / distributed applications. Autonomous Agents a discipline of Artificial br a Coordination Language for MultiAgent Systems. In J.P. Muller M.J.
3772.3 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
3737.3 The Art of Designing Socially Intelligent Agents - Science, Fiction.. - Dautenhahn (1998)(Correct)
In this paper socially intelligent agents (SIA) are understood as agents which
do not only from an observer point of view behave socially but which are able
to recognize and identify other agents and ... / objects with goals and autonomous agents agents with motivations br ffl Autonomous agents. Autonomous agents are entities
3714.1 Methods for task allocation via agent coalition formation - Shehory, Kraus (1998)(Correct)
Task execution in multi-agent environments may require cooperation among agents. Given a set of agents and a set of tasks which they have to satisfy, we consider situations where each task should be a... / of task allocation among autonomous agents and suggest that the agents br problem solving in industrial multiagent systems using joint intentions.
3661.1 Rational Interaction in Multiagent Environments: Coordination - Gmytrasiewicz (1997)(Correct)
We adopt the decision-theoretic principle of expected utility maximization as a
paradigm for designing autonomous rational agents, and present a method of representing
and processing a finite amount o... / constituting a full-fledged autonomous agent. These usually include a br International Conference on Multiagent Systems June . Michael
3614.1 Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Weighting and Partitioning - Sun, Peterson (1999)(Correct)
This paper addresses weighting and partitioning in complex reinforcement learning tasks,
with the aim of facilitating learning. The paper presents some ideas regarding weighting
of multiple agents and... / RL i.e.learning by autonomous agents on the basis of only simple br The general structure of a multi-agent system when hard non-overlapping
3575.8 Intelligent Adaptive Information Agents - Decker, Sycara (1996)(Correct)
Adaptation in open, multi-agent information gathering systems is important for several
reasons. These reasons include the inability to accurately predict future problem-solving
workloads, future cha... / for this paper is Warren a multiagent system for financial portfolio br framework. Keywords Multi-Agent Systems Intelligent Agents
3573.6 What Your Computer Really Needs to Know, You Learned in Kindergarten - Durfee (1992)(Correct)
Research in distributed AI has led to computational
techniques for providing AI systems with
rudimentary social skills. This paper gives a brief
survey of distributed AI, describing the work that
stri... / are artificial and contrived. Autonomous agents cannot be instilled with br theory of communication for multiagent systems. In Proceedings of the
3563.4 Modeling Belief In Dynamic Systems Part I: Foundations - Nir Friedman(Correct)
Belief change is a fundamental problem in AI: Agents constantly have to update their beliefs
to accommodate new observations. In recent years, there has been much work on axiomatic
characterizations o... / for modeling knowledge in multi-agent systems. We then examine the
3561.7 Contracting Tasks in Multi-Agent Environments - Kraus (1994)(Correct)
Agents may contract some of their tasks to other agent even when they do not
share a common goal. An agent may try to contract some of the tasks that it cannot
perform by itself, or that may be perfor... / a set of self-motivated autonomous agents have a common goals that br Problem Solving DPS and Multi-Agent Systems MA Bond and Gasser
3527.4 Cooperative Multiagent Systems: A Personal View of the State of the.. - Lesser (1999)(Correct)
Scientific research and practice in multiagent systems focuses on constructing
computational frameworks, principles, and models for how both small and large societies of
intelligent, semi-autonomous a... / of intelligent semi-autonomous agents can interact effectively to br Cooperative Multiagent Systems A Personal View of the
3378.1 Emergent cooperative goal-satisfaction in large scale automated-agent .. - Shehory, Kraus, al. (1999)(Correct)
Cooperation among autonomous agents has been discussed in the DAI community
for several years. Papers about cooperation [6,45], negotiation [33], distributed
planning [5], and coalition formation [28,... / Abstract Cooperation among autonomous agents has been discussed in the br International Conference on Multiagent Systems pages -
3370.6 Capturing And Modeling Coordination Knowledge For Multi-Agent Systems - Barbuceanu, Fox (1996)(Correct)
this paper we focus on the solutions we are providing for the outer layer of the
architecture. They are embedded into a domain independent COOrdination Lan3
guage (COOL) that provides services for def... / loosely coupled and semi-autonomous agents. In ARCHON cooperation br coordination knowledge for multiagent systems. The language provides
3346.1 Language Support for Mobile Agents - Knabe (1995)(Correct)
Mobile agents are code-containing objects that may be transmitted between communicating
participants in a distributed system. As opposed to systems that only
allow the exchange of nonexecutable data, ... / Language Support for Mobile Agents Frederick Colville Knabe br xi Chapter Mobile Agents Mobile agents are code-containing
3341.6 Learning Models of Environments with Manifest Causal Structure - Bergman (1995)(Correct)
This thesis examines the problem of an autonomous agent learning a causal world model of
its environment. The agent is situated in an environment with manifest causal structure.
Environments with mani... / examines the problem of an autonomous agent learning a causal world model
3335.4 Cooperative Information Gathering: A Distributed Problem Solving.. - Oates, Prasad, Lesser(Correct)
We contrast two approaches to the problem of information gathering that may be characterized as distributed processing and distributed problem solving. The former is characteristic of most existing in... / to a query multiple semi-autonomous agents can be released to search br International Conference on Multiagent Systems San Francisco CA July
3327.7 Hierarchical Taxonomies using Divisive Partitioning - Boley (1998)(Correct)
We propose an unsupervised divisive partitioning algorithm for document data sets which enjoys many
favorable properties. In particular, the algorithm shows excellent scalability to large data collect... / This has lead to interest in autonomous agents to explore the WWW such as
3297.1 Dreme: for Life in the Net - Fuchs (1996)(Correct)
This dissertation makes four contributions towards supporting distributed, multiuser
applications over open networks.
Dreme, a distributed dialect of the Scheme language in which all first-class
langu... / GUIs intelligent clients and mobile agents. SGML is a meta-grammar for
3283.9 KAoS: A Generic Agent Architecture for Aerospace Applications - Bradshaw, Dutfield, Carpenter.. (1995)(Correct)
this paper. unknown KAoS: A Generic Agent Architecture for Aerospace Applications
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
Stewart Dutfield
Bob Carpenter
Renia Jeffers
Tom Robinson
1. Industrial-Strength Agents for Techn... / Protocol Description for Multiagent Systems. V. Lessor Ed. br describing coordination in multi-agent systems. V. Lessor Ed.
3270.3 Autonomous Agents and Collective Robotics - Chantemargue, Courant, Hirsbrunner(Correct)
this paper is twofold. First to take stock of the state of the AMoC project after three
years of research (funded by the Swiss National Foundation for Research unknown Autonomous Agents and Collective... / Autonomous Agents and Collective Robotics br Agents. Autonomous Agents Autonomous agents are considered to be
3254.6 Neural Fuzzy Agents for Profile Learning and Adaptive Object Matching - Mitaim, Kosko (1998)(Correct)
A neural fuzzy system can learn an agent profile of a user when it samples user question-answer
data. A fuzzy system uses if-then rules to store and compress the agent's knowledge of the user's
likes ... / in PRESENCE Special Issue on Autonomous Agents Adaptive Behaviors and br International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems June pp. - .
3210.8 Towards a Tractable Appraisal-Based Architecture for Situated.. - Staller, Petta (1998)(Correct)
This paper introduces TABASCO
1
, an architecture for software agents
aimed at integrating results from functional theories in emotion research and
insights on the impact of the capacities and limit... / adaptive behaviour in autonomous agents situated in complex br model of emotions in a multi-agent system Northwestern University
3206.8 .2 Computational Field Model - To Make (1993)(Correct)
this paper.
Objects are things which can be distinguished
from others. This notion brought us "macroscopic
programming". Concurrent objects are the "real"
self-contained objects including virtual proc... / concurrent objects and autonomous agents and have presented some of br are the cells for autonomous agents. Autonomous agents are based on the
3147.4 Of Elephants and Men - Johan Lammens (1994)(Correct)
In the elephant paper, Brooks criticized the ungroundedness
of traditional symbol systems and proposed physically grounded
systems as an alternative. We want to make a contribution towards
integrati... / complex physical behavior in autonomous agents. In the current paper we
3096.6 Eye On The Prize - Nilsson (1995)(Correct)
In its early stages, the field of artificial intelligence (AI) had as
its main goal the invention of computer programs having the general
problem solving abilities of humans. Along the way, there deve... / like humans do. Keywords autonomous agents general problem solving
3096.3 Coalitions among Computationally Bounded Agents - Sandholm, Lesser(Correct)
This paper analyzes coalitions among self-interested agents that need to solve combinatorial optimization problems to operate efficiently in the world. By colluding (coordinating their actions by solv... / via coalition formation among autonomous agents. In Proceedings of the br On the other hand in multiagent systems
3089.6 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
3072.9 Believable Social and Emotional Agents - Reilly (1996)(Correct)
One of the key steps in creating quality interactive drama is the ability to create quality interactive characters (or believable agents). Two important aspects of such characters will be that they ap... / Tok Em Agent Architectures Autonomous Agents Social Behaviors Agent br International Conference on MultiAgent Systems. San Francisco CA. MIT
3071.6 An Artificial Market Model of a Foreign Exchange Market - Izumi (1998)(Correct)
In this study, we proposed a new approach to foreign exchange market
studies, an artificial market approach. The artificial market approach integrated
fieldwork studies and multiagent models in order ... / of multiagent systems. Autonomous Agents each dealer makes a br market has some features of multiagent systems. Autonomous Agents each
3047.4 Dynamical Systems for the Generation of Navigation Behavior - Steinhage (1997)(Correct)
this memory is implemented by a flag e b for
each base, which indicates that this base needs to be examined later. This flag is
the state of a competition dynamics similar to (3.9):
ř e e b = fi b e ... / complex behavior of an autonomous agent. For the example of
3027.8 Modeling Belief in Dynamic Systems. Part II: Revision and Update - Friedman (1999)(Correct)
The study of belief change has been an active area in philosophy and AI. In recent years
two special cases of belief change, belief revision and belief update, have been studied in
detail. In a compan... / in distributed i.e.multiagent systems Halpern and Fagin br for analyzing knowledge in multi-agent systems introduced in Halpern
3007.0 Multiagent Cooperative Search for Portfolio Selection - Parkes, Huberman(Correct)
We present a new multiagent model for the multiperiod portfolio selection problem. Individual
agents each receive a share of initial wealth, and follow a worst-case optimal sequence of portfolio
inves... / sophisticated learning. Multiagent systems research complements this
2947.6 Beyond Cooperation and Competition: Explorations with a Quantitative.. - Tzafestas (1995)(Correct)
The modeling of cooperative processes has up to now relied almost exclusively on the
traditional cognitivist paradigm, employing explicit representations of goals, beliefs and actions, as seen
from ... / behavior when designing autonomous agents and especially mobile br International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems ICMAS- San Francisco
2928.2 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
2901.9 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 .
2882.5 On Team Formation - Cohen, Levesque, Smith(Correct)
this paper is inspired by philosophical work, it is squarely motivated by the concerns of building intelligent systems that are capable of collaborative behavior, either with a user, or with other suc... / International Conference on Autonomous Agents ACM Press New York br collaborative work multiagent systems distributed artificial
2860.7 Mobile Objects in Distributed Oz - Van Roy, Haridi, Brand, Smolka.. (1997)(Correct)
Some of the most difficult questions to answer when designing a distributed
application are related to mobility: what information to transfer between sites
and when and how to transfer it. Network-tra... / In st Int. Conf. on Multiagent Systems ICMAS pages - br are used as stationary servers mobile agents or simply as state caches.
2815.1 Mobility and Persistence - Silva (1997)(Correct)
In the last three years we have been working with persistence and distribution,
in particular migration of higher-level objects between autonomous persistent programs. In
this chapter we introduce p... / Malcolm Atkinson Combining Mobile Agents with Persistent Systems
2802.4 Secure Agents - Bonatti, Kraus, Subrahmanian(Correct)
With the rapid proliferation of software agents, there comes an increased need
for agents to ensure that they do not provide data and/or services to unauthorized
users. We first develop an abstract de... / However data security in autonomous agents environments raises new br Security There exist multi-agent systems where surface security
2790.9 Individual Learning of Coordination Knowledge - Sen, Sekaran (1998)(Correct)
Social agents, both human and computational, inhabiting a world containing
multiple active agents, need to coordinate their activities. This is
because agents share resources, and without proper coord... / learning by multiple autonomous agents as a means for acquiring br the coordination problem in multiagent systems. In a reinforcement
2782.5 Specialized Learning and the Design of Intelligent Agents - Bryson (1997)(Correct)
The reactive approach to artificial intelligence has developed impressive demonstrations of
life-like robots and simulations by breaking behavior into carefully engineered behavioral modules
which rea... / a McGonigle Autonomous agent research more than most
2754.6 Thesis Topic Proposal - Erignac (1999)(Correct)
This paper proposes the development of a semi-qualitative simulation framework
for virtual environments. Its purpose is to simulate the behavior of
complex devices and their interaction with virtual h... / each virtual human is an autonomous agent communicating with other br Autonomus Agents and Multi-Agent Systems - .
2742.7 Security in Agent-based Computing Environments Using Existing Tools.. - Krintz(Correct)
Agent-based computing allows efficient utilization of resources and amortizes communication
delay in a distributed system. In a dynamically changing, heterogeneous
environment like the Internet, no as... / on behalf of users. The autonomous agent concept has been proposed br e.g.the Internet Mobile agent operation is a natural
2713.1 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
2691.9 Secure Mobile Code: The JavaSeal experiment - Vitek, Bryce (1999)(Correct)
Mobile agents are programs that move between sites during execution
to benefit from the services and information present at each site. To gain
wide acceptance, strong security guarantees must be given... / of Geneva Abstract Mobile agents are programs that move between
2665.6 Programming a Pipelined Image Processor - Olson, Taylor, Lockwood (1993)(Correct)
Real-time computer vision systems often make use of dedicated image processing hardware to
perform the pixel-oriented operations typical of early vision. This type of hardware is notoriously
difficult... / of active vision is to allow autonomous agents vehicles or robots to use
2664.2 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
2661.0 On Partially Controlled Multi-Agent Systems - Ronen Brafman (1996)(Correct)
Motivated by the control theoretic distinction between controllable and uncontrollable
events, we distinguish between two types of agents within a multi-agent system: controllable
agents, which are d... / On Partially Controlled Multi-Agent Systems Ronen I. Brafman
2650.1 Infant-like Social Interactions between a Robot and a Human Caretaker - (Ferrell), Scassellati (1998)(Correct)
This paper presents an autonomous robot designed to interact socially with human "parents
". A human infant's emotions and drives play an important role in generating meaningful
interactions with the ... / of the robot. Other work in autonomous agent research has used drives in br Model of Emotions in a Multi-Agent System PhD thesis Institute for
2644.0 Formal Models and Decision Procedures for Multi-Agent Systems - Rao, Georgeff (1995)(Correct)
The study of computational agents capable of rational behaviour has received a great
deal of attention in recent years. A number of theoretical formalizations for such multiagent
systems have been pro... / formalizations for such multiagent systems have been proposed. br and Decision Procedures for Multi-Agent Systems June Technical
2633.6 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
2631.8 Designing and Understanding Adaptive Group Behavior - Mataric (1995)(Correct)
This paper proposes the concept of basis behaviors as ubiquitous general building blocks
for synthesizing artificial group behavior in multi--agent systems, and for analyzing group
behavior in nature.... / artificial group behavior in multi-agent systems and for analyzing group br and tasks for a group of mobile agents. locally. It can also serve
2623.0 Temporal Belief Logics for Modelling Distributed Artificial.. - Wooldridge (1995)(Correct)
In this article, we look at formal methods for reasoning about multi-agent systems,
with particular emphasis on the twin problems of specifying and verifying
such systems. We begin by critically revi... / Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in Multi-Agent Worlds br methods for reasoning about multi-agent systems with particular emphasis
2617.2 Strategies in Combined Learning via Logic Programs - Lamma, Riguzzi, Pereira (1999)(Correct)
We discuss the adoption of a three-valued setting for inductive concept learning.
Distinguishing between what is true, what is false and what is unknown can be useful in situations
where decisions h... / is typically the case of an autonomous agent that in an incremental way
2606.1 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
2596.2 An Overview of System Architectures for Action Selection in Mobile.. - Pirjanian (1997)(Correct)
ion may be an advantage when modeling complex systems. When going from
one level to the other information is usually translated to other forms (from signal to symbol and vice-versa).
This interaction ... / taxonomy for categorization of autonomous agent architectures. and could br Event Systems for Autonomous Mobile Agents. Proceedings Intelligent
2592.8 Instructions, Intentions and Expectations - Webber, Badler, Di Eugenio, Geib.. (1995)(Correct)
Based on an ongoing attempt to integrate Natural Language instructions with human
figure animation, we demonstrate that agents' understanding and use of instructions can
complement what they can deriv... / the situation to one of semi-autonomous agents who have no other intentions
2577.0 Coordination Of Multiple Intelligent Software Agents - Sycara, Zeng (1996)(Correct)
this paper we present the distributed system architecture, agent collaboration interactions, and a reusable set of software components for structuring agents. The system architecture has three types o... / Co-evolution and Learning in Multiagent Systems . . Lisa Dent br Such multi-agent systems can compartmentalize
2575.6 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
2567.2 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
2562.6 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
2537.1 Types for Access Control - De Nicola, Ferrari, Pugliese, Venneri (1998)(Correct)
Klaim is an experimental programming language that supports a programming paradigm where both processes and data can be moved across different computing environments. The language relies on the use of... / the access rights violations of mobile agents. Types are used to describe
2534.8 Formalising the Common Sense of a Mobile Robot - Santos (1998)(Correct)
Looking at the history of Artificial Intelligence, often theoretical rigor seems inversely
proportional to practical applicability. Particularly, in the field of robotics,
there is a gap between the r... / that a formal theory about an autonomous agent immersed in the real world
2531.2 From continuous dynamics to symbols - Jaeger (1997)(Correct)
This article deals with mathematical models of discrete, identifiable, "symbolic"
events in neural and cognitive dynamics. These dynamical symbols are the supposed
correlates of identifiable motor act... / Dynamics Synergetics Autonomous Agents Gstaad Switzerland
2531.1 The Evolution of Communication in Adaptive Agents - Saunders, Pollack(Correct)
This paper explores how communication can be understood as an adaptation by
agents to their environment. We model agents as recurrent neural networks. After
arguing against systems which use discrete ... / evolutionary algorithms autonomous agents neural networks Running br The role of communication in multi-agent systems remains one of the most
2517.8 Embodied Evolution: Embodying an Evolutionary Algorithm in a.. - Watson, Ficici, Pollack (1999)(Correct)
We introduce Embodied Evolution (EE) as a methodology for the automatic design of robotic controllers. EE is an
evolutionary robotics (ER) technique that avoids the pitfalls of the simulate-and-transf... / case we build an independent autonomous agent for each sub-problem using br International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems ICMAS- . Beckers R.
2504.0 How Economists Can Get Alife - Tesfatsion (1997)(Correct)
This paper presents a summary overview of the fast-developing field of artificial
life, stressing aspects especially relevant for the study of decentralized market economies. In
particular, a recent... / from the local interactions of autonomous agents channeled through actual or br a growing body of work on multi-agent systems with endogenous
2467.5 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
2441.9 Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Mobile Systems - Priami (1997)(Correct)
In this study we propose a uniform framework to carry out functional and
performance analysis of mobile systems. In particular, we rely on a recent process
calculus suitable to express mobility: ß-c... / The emerging paradigm of mobile agents is increasing the complexity
2421.1 Toward A Biologically Defensible Model Of Development - Dellaert (1995)(Correct)
This thesis discusses a biologically defensible model of development for artificial organisms. It can be used in conjunction with genetic algorithms to design autonomous agents, complete with body and... / genetic algorithms to design autonomous agents complete with body and
2410.3 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
2400.7 Imposing Security Constraints on Agent-Based Decision Support - Ekenberg, Danielson, Boman (1997)(Correct)
The principle of maximising the expected utility has had a large influence on agent-based decision
support. Even though this principle is often useful when evaluating a decision situation, it
is not a... / access to a finite set of autonomous agents reporting their opinions on br Keywords Decision analysis multi-agent systems utility theory uncertain
2381.3 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
2381.2 Artificial Social Systems - Moses, Tennenholtz (1995)(Correct)
An artificial social system is a set of restrictions on agents' behaviors in a multiagent
environment. Its role is to allow agents to coexist in a shared environment
and pursue their respective goals ... / component of the design of multiagent systems. Our purpose in this work br exist in practically every multi-agent system and play a major role in
2376.1 Learning other agents' preferences in multi-agent negotiation using.. - Bui Venkatesh (1996)(Correct)
In multi-agent systems, most of the time, an agent does not have
complete information about the preferences and decision making processes
of other agents. This prevents even the co-operative agents fr... / and task sharing among autonomous agents in cooperative domains. In br M. L. Dowell. Learning in Multiagent Systems. PhD thesis Department of
2369.3 Resolution for Temporal Logics of Knowledge - Dixon, Fisher, Wooldridge (1998)(Correct)
A resolution based proof system for a temporal logic of knowledge is presented and shown to
be correct. Such logics are useful for proving properties of distributed and multi-agent systems.
Examples a... / properties of distributed and multi-agent systems. Examples are given to
2362.0 Open Sesame!: A Look at Personal Assistants - Hoyle, Lueg (1997)(Correct)
Software agents, or softbots, are supposedly intelligent
programs that assist the user in performing repetitive,
boring, and time-consuming tasks. An overview
of software agents, with special attentio... / Memo - MIT Media Lab Autonomous Agents Group. General Magic Inc. br International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems MIT Press. .
2359.8 Learning Situation-Specific Coordination in Cooperative Multi-agent.. - Prasad, Lesser (1999)(Correct)
Achieving effective cooperation in a multi-agent system is a difficult problem for a number of
reasons such as limited and possiblyout-dated views of activities of other agents and uncertainty
about t... / cooperative control in a multiagent system. Effective cooperation in a br Coordination in Cooperative Multi-agent Systems M V Nagendra Prasad and
2344.5 An Architecture for Negotiating Agents that Learn - Bui Venkatesh(Correct)
In multiagent systems, most of the time, an agent does not have complete
information about the preferences and decision making processes
of other agents. This prevents even the co-operative agents fro... / and task sharing among autonomous agents in cooperative domains. In br August Abstract In multiagent systems most of the time an agent
2332.6 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
2328.6 What is `multi' in multi-agent learning? - Weiss, Dillenbourg(Correct)
Learning in multi-agent environments constitutes a research and application
area whose importance is broadly acknowledged in artificial intelligence.
Although there is a rapidly growing body of litera... / Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World br role in the context of multiagent systems is stressed. This chapter
2327.2 The Architectural Basis for Grief - Wright, Sloman (1995)(Correct)
The design-based approach is a methodology for investigating possible mechanisms
that underlie mental phenomena, and, more generally, intelligent capabilities, whether
introspectively or externally ob... / our high level design for autonomous agents with a distinction between
2319.6 Real-Time Virtual Humans - Badler (1997)(Correct)
The last few years have seen great maturation in the computation
speed and control methods needed to portray 3D
virtual humans suitable for real interactive applications. We
first describe the state o... / animation virtual reality autonomous agents language and action
2314.3 Meta-Agent Programs - Dix, Subrahmanian, Pick (1999)(Correct)
There are numerous applications where an agent a needs to reason about the beliefs
of another agent, as well as about the actions that other agents may take. In (20)
the concept of an agent program is... / be autonomous and that such autonomous agents should behave according to br logic programming towards multi-agent systems. Annals of Mathematics and
2313.2 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
2299.4 Emergent Coordination through the Use of Cooperative State-Changing.. - Goldman (1994)(Correct)
Contents
1 Introduction 4
1.1 DAI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2 Cooperation and Coordination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... / These systems consist of autonomous agents that may have a common task br Problem Solving vs. MultiAgent Systems The idea that agents can
2290.0 Multiagent Systems and Societies of Agents - Huhns, Stephens (1999)(Correct)
Introduction
Agents operate and exist in some environment, which typically is both computational
and physical. The environment might be open or closed, and it might or
might not contain other agents.... / is best thought of as an autonomous agent that finds conveys or br Multiagent Systems and Societies of Agents
2288.2 Tableau Methods for Formal Verification of Multi-Agent Distributed.. - Massacci (1998)(Correct)
Formal verification is a key step in the development of trusted and reliable multi-agent
distributed systems. This is particularly relevant when security concerns such as privacy,
integrity and availa... / C. Krogh. Obligations in multiagent systems. In Proceedings of the th br important in large-scale multi-agent systems where agents humans
2251.1 Plans Should Abstractly Describe Intended Behavior - Pfleger, Hayes-Roth(Correct)
ly Describe Intended Behavior
Karl Pfleger
kpfleger@cs.stanford.edu
Barbara Hayes-Roth
bhr@hpp.stanford.edu
Computer Science Department
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
Abstract
Planning i... / behaviors we claim that autonomous agents inhabiting dynamic
2250.3 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
2248.7 Knowledge-Based Programs - Fagin, Halpern, Moses, al. (1995)(Correct)
Reasoning about activities in a distributed computer system at the level of the knowledge
of individuals and groups allows us to abstract away from many concrete details of the
system we are consider... / robots are all examples of multiagent systems. Thus we need a framework br In Section we describe the multi-agent systems framework and in Section
2245.5 Stochastic Analysis of Mobile Telephony Networks - Priami (1997)(Correct)
We show here that a stochastic extension of ß-calculus allows us to derive
performance measures of systems specified in the original formalism with
very little efforts. We apply our extension to a mob... / tools mobility. Mobile agents are self-contained pieces of
2245.0 Cooperative Covering by Ant-Robots using Evaporating Traces - Wagner, Lindenbaum, Bruckstein (1996)(Correct)
Some insects are known to use chemicals called pheromones for various communication and
coordination tasks. In this paper we investigate the ability of a group of robots, that communicate
by leaving t... / Play Chess in Designing Autonomous Agents P. Maes Ed.pp. - br and practical problems in multiagent systems is how to design adaptive
2244.5 When are robots intelligent autonomous agents? - Steels (1995)(Correct)
The paper explores a biologically inspired definition of
intelligent autonomous agents. Intelligence is related to whether behavior
of a system contributes to its self-maintenance. Behavior becomes
... / When are robots intelligent autonomous agents Luc Steels Artificial
2221.7 Relating logic programming theories of actions and partial order.. - Baral(Correct)
In this paper we argue that logic programming theories of action allow us to identify
subclasses when the corresponding logic program has nice properties (such as acyclicity)
that guarantees decidabil... / towards the development of autonomous agents' that can perform' in a
2205.0 Performance of Autonomy-based Systems: Tuning Emergent Cooperation - Thierry Dagaeff (1998)(Correct)
This paper presents our work, which relates to the general problem of adaptability for artificial entities. More
particularly, our work tackles the problem of performance control in systems made up of... / . . . Situated autonomous agents . br Behavior in Autonomous Agents. Autonomous Agents Adaptive Behaviors
2204.3 Stochastic pi-calculus with general distributions - Priami (1996)(Correct)
In this study we extend stochastic ß-calculus allowing general probabilistic distributions
to occur in its prefixes. We show that no additional information is needed
in the labels of transitions or in... / structures or process algebras. Mobile agents as well can be treated
2192.2 Coordinating Human and Computer Agents - Decker (1998)(Correct)
In many application areas individuals are responsible for an
agenda of tasks and face choices about the best way to locally handle
each task, in what order to do tasks, and when to do them. Such dec... / Structure Database Autonomous Agent Application br Co-evolution and Learning in Multiagent Systems Stanford March . .
2189.3 Dynamic Reconfiguration in Collaborative Problem Solving - Hannebauer, Kühnel (1999)(Correct)
In this article we will describe our research efforts in
coping with a trade-off that can be often found in
the control and optimization of todays business processes.
Though centralized control may ac... / call the procedure in which autonomous agents pursue a common goal br planning. In Weiss G.ed.Multiagent Systems -A Modern Approach to
2186.0 Learning to Select Useful Landmarks - Greiner, Isukapalli (1994)(Correct)
To navigate effectively, an autonomous agent must be able to quickly and accurately determine its current
location. Given an initial estimate of its position (perhaps based on dead-reckoning) and an i... / To navigate effectively an autonomous agent must be able to quickly and
2185.9 Integrating Simulation And Animation Approaches For Autonomous.. - Paul Fishwick(Correct)
The simulation of autonomous agents requires effective use of both computer graphics and
animation; however, there has not been sufficient attention paid to the problem of seamlessly
integrating tradi... / ABSTRACT The simulation of autonomous agents requires effective use of
2180.4 Constraint Agents for the Information Age - Andreoli, Borghoff, Pareschi.. (1995)(Correct)
We propose constraints as the appropriate computational constructs for
the design of agents with the task of selecting, merging and managing electronic information
coming from such services as Inter... / which allow distributed semi-autonomous agents to cooperate in order to br interacting through multiagent systems have been proposed as the
2169.6 Toward Effective Conversational Messaging - Marx (1995)(Correct)
The ubiquity of the telephone suggests it as an ideal messaging tool. The slow, serial
output of speech, however, makes it difficult to find important messages quickly.
MailCall, a telephone-based mes... / Two classes she taught one on autonomous agents and one on information
2166.9 Rational Interactions in Multiagent Environments: Communication - Gmytrasiewicz, Durfee (1997)(Correct)
We address the issue of rational communicative behavior among autonomous intelligent
agents that have to make decisions as to what, to whom, and how to communicate.
We treat communicative actions as a... / communicative behavior among autonomous agents that have to decide how to br takes the global view of the multiagent system as opposed to our taking an
2149.6 A mobile robot employing insect strategies for navigation - Lambrinos, Möller, Labhart, Pfeifer, .. (1999)(Correct)
The ability to navigate in a complex environment is crucial for both animals and robots.
Many animals use a combination of different strategies to return to significant locations
in their environment.... / In this paper we use the autonomous agents approach see e.g. br position is important for mobile agents. When the agent is close to
2143.7 Testing Collaborative Strategies by Computational Simulation.. - Walker (1995)(Correct)
A theory of communicationbetween autonomous agents shouldmake testable
predictions about which communicative behaviors are collaborative, and provide
a framework for determining the features of a comm... / theory of communicationbetween autonomous agents shouldmake testable
2125.3 Executing Suspended Logic Programs - Kowalski, Toni, Wetzel (1998)(Correct)
We present an extension of Logic Programming (LP) which, in addition to ordinary
LP clauses, also includes integrity constraints, explicit representation of disjunction in
the bodies of clauses and ... / EPSRC project Logic-based multi-agent systems The third author is
2115.3 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
2113.8 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
2111.2 Mutual Belief Revision - van der Meyden (1994)(Correct)
A semantical theory of belief revision in synchronous
multi-agent systems is presented.
The theory assumes that the world is static,
and that the belief revision methods used
by the agents are common ... / revision in synchronous multi-agent systems is presented. The theory