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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

6371.1   Infrastructure Support for Adaptive Mobile Applications - Friday (1996)   (Correct)
Infrastructure Support for Adaptive Mobile Applications Adrian John Friday B.Sc. Hons. (London, 1991) Computing Department, Lancaster University, England. Submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philo... / . . Mobile Agents

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

4900.6   A Hybrid Architecture for Situated Learning of Reactive Sequential.. - Sun, Peterson, Merrill (1999)   (Correct)
In developing autonomous agents, one usually emphasizes only (situated) procedural knowledge, ignoring more explicit declarative knowledge. On the other hand, in developing symbolic reasoning models, ... / Abstract In developing autonomous agents one usually emphasizes only

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

4132.5   Genetic Programming - Computers using "Natural Selection" to generate .. - Langdon, Qureshi (1995)   (Correct)
Computers that "program themselves"; science fact or fiction? Genetic Programming uses novel optimisation techniques to "evolve" simple programs; mimicking the way humans construct programs by progres... / . Robots and Autonomous Agents

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

4029.1   Specification and Synthesis of Plans Using the Features and Fluents.. - Karlsson (1995)   (Correct)
An autonomous agent operating in a dynamical environment will face a number of different reasoning problems, one of which is how to plan its actions in order to pursue its goals. For this purpose, it ... / March ABSTRACT An autonomous agent operating in a dynamical

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

4000.9   Remote Agent: To Boldly Go Where No AI System Has Gone Before - Muscettola, Nayak, Pell, Williams (1998)   (Correct)
Renewed motives for space exploration have inspired NASA to work toward the goal of establishing a virtual presence in space, through heterogeneous fleets of robotic explorers. Information technology,... / the Remote Agent a specific autonomous agent architecture based on the

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

3943.1   Logical and Operational Methods in the Analysis of Programs and.. - Nielson, Cousot, Dam, Degano..   (Correct)
Interpretation [25], Modalities in Analysis and Veri cation [30], and Enhanced Operational Semantics [35]. Each section below begins with a presentation of our view of the state-of-the-art within the ... / the emergence on the internet of mobile agents or applets i.e.

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

3523.9   A stroll through the worlds of robots and animals: Applying Jakob von .. - Ziemke, Sharkey (2000)   (Correct)
Despite the relevance of much of Jakob von Uexkll's work to artificial intelligence and the cognitive sciences, it was largely ignored until the mid1980s. Since then, much research has been devoted ... / to the study of embodied autonomous agents robots and artificial

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

3308.8   Java Operating Systems: Design and Implementation - Back, Tullmann, Stoller, Hsieh.. (1998)   (Correct)
Language-based extensible systems such as Java use type safety to provide memory safety in a single address space. Memory safety alone, however, is not sufficient to protect different applications fro... / servlets in servers and mobile agents. All of these environments

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

3134.2   Concept Acquisition by Autonomous Agents: Cognitive Modeling versus.. - Davidsson (1992)   (Correct)
This paper is a treatment of the problem of concept acquisition by autonomous agents, primarily from an AI point of view. However, as this problem is not very well studied in AI and as humans are inde... / Concept Acquisition by Autonomous Agents Cognitive Modeling

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

3047.5   An Autonomous Agent Architecture for Integrating Perception and.. - Hexmoor, Lammens, Shapiro (1992)   (Correct)
We describe an agent architecture in terms of general principles of organization of components for an autonomous agent that functions in the world. This architecture is described independent of comput... / An Autonomous Agent Architecture for Integrating

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

3023.7   A Theory and Implementation of Cognitive Mobile Robots - De Giacomo, Iocchi, Nardi, Rosati (1998)   (Correct)
We describe an approach to reasoning agents which is based on a formal theory of actions and is actually implemented on a mobile robot working in an office environment. From an epistemological viewpoi... / the view that a robot is an autonomous agent capable of achieving a

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

2875.8   Teaching Agent-Based Computational Economics to Graduate Students - Tesfatsion (1998)   (Correct)
Agent-based computational economics (ACE) is roughly defined as the computational study of economies modelled as evolving decentralized systems of autonomous interacting agents. A key focus of ACE r... / local interactions of autonomous agents channeled through

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

2718.4   A Hybrid Agent Architecture For Reactive Sequential Decision Making - Sun, Peterson (1997)   (Correct)
INTRODUCTION How does an autonomous agent that interacts with an environment learn to survive in the environment and make the most out of it? More specifically, how can it develop a set of coping ski... / INTRODUCTION How does an autonomous agent that interacts with an

2716.0   Combining Mobile Agents with Persistent Systems: Opportunities and.. - Silva, Atkinson   (Correct)
In the last three years we have been working with persistence and distribution, in particular migration of higher-level objects (such as procedures) between autonomous persistent programs. In this p... / Combining Mobile Agents with Persistent Systems

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

2626.0   A Strategic Negotiations Model with Applications to an International.. - Kraus, Wilkenfeld (1993)   (Correct)
The area of automated negotiation has been of particular interest in AI due to the important role negotiations play in facilitating understanding and the achievement of cooperation among entities with... / from the point of view of the autonomous agents that participate in the

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

2578.0   Robot Shaping: Developing Situated Agents through Learning - Dorigo, Colombetti (1993)   (Correct)
Learning plays a vital role in the development of situated agents. In this paper, we explore the use of reinforcement learning to "shape" a robot to perform a predefined target behavior. We connect bo... / employed to develop autonomous agents.

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

2539.1   Case-based reactive navigation: A case-based method for on-line.. - Ram, Arkin, Moorman, Clark   (Correct)
This article presents a new line of research investigating on-line learning mechanisms for autonomous intelligent agents. We discuss a case-based method for dynamic selection and modification of behav... / in the development of actual autonomous agents for a variety of real-world

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

2522.0   A Knowledge-Based Framework for Belief Change - Part I: Foundations - Friedman, Halpern (1994)   (Correct)
We propose a general framework in which to study belief change. We begin by defining belief in terms of knowledge and plausibility: an agent believes ' if he knows that ' is true in all the worlds he ... / for modeling knowledge in multi-agent systems. We show that our framework

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.

2516.2   Average Reward Reinforcement Learning: Foundations, Algorithms, and.. - Mahadevan (1996)   (Correct)
This paper presents a detailed study of average reward reinforcement learning, an undiscounted optimality framework that is more appropriate for cyclical tasks than the much better studied discounte... / techniques that enable autonomous agents to adapt to dynamic

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

2484.3   Evolutionary Robotics: the Sussex Approach - Harvey, Husbands, Cliff, Thompson.. (1996)   (Correct)
this paper is primarily an overview of our work at Sussex. We discuss what artificial evolutionary techniques are appropriate, followed by discussion of which classes unknown Evolutionary Robotics: th... / on control systems for autonomous agents influenced by early work in

2470.8   Inheritance and Complementation: A Case Study of Easy Adjectives and.. - Flickinger, Nerbonne (1991)   (Correct)
Mechanisms for representing lexically the bulk of syntactic and semantic information for a language have been under active development, as is evident in the recent studies contained in this volume. Ou... / Systems Deduction and Multiagent Systems Document Analysis and

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

2413.1   Making Complex Articulated Agents Dance - An analysis of control.. - Mataric, Zordan, Williamson (1999)   (Correct)
We discuss the tradeoffs involved in control of complex articulated agents, and present three implemented controllers for a complex task: a physically-based humanoid torso dancing the Macarena. The... / This paper will appear in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems br in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems July .

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

2388.5   An Attribute-Space An Attribute-Space Representation and Algorithm.. - Darr, Birmingham (1994)   (Correct)
This paper presents a novel formulation of the configuration-design problem that achieves the benefits of the concurrent engineering (CE) design paradigm. In CE, all design concerns (manufacturability... / collection of loosely-coupled autonomous agents that organize communication

2382.6   Building Agent Teams Using an Explicit Teamwork Model and Learning - Tambe, Adibi, Al-Onaizan, Kaminka.. (1998)   (Correct)
Multi-agent collaboration or teamwork and learning are two critical research challenges in a large number of multi-agent applications. These research challenges are highlighted in RoboCup, an internat... / international conference on autonomous agents . H. Kitano M. br testbed for research in multi-agent systems. This article describes

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

2369.5   Subsumption between Queries to Object-Oriented Databases - Buchheit, Jeusfeld, Nutt, Staudt (1993)   (Correct)
Most work on query optimization in relational and object-oriented databases has concentrated on tuning algebraic expressions and the physical access to the database contents. The attention to semantic... / Systems Deduction and Multiagent Systems Document Analysis and

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

2317.8   Artificial Evolution: A New Path for Artificial Intelligence? - Husbands, Harvey, Cliff, Miller (1997)   (Correct)
This paper explains the artificial evolution approach, using work at Sussex to illustrate it. The paper revolves around a case study on the concurrent evolution of control networks and visual sensor m... / to the development of autonomous agents with sensorimotor

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

2299.3   Npsnet: A Network Software Architecture For Large Scale Virtual.. - Macedonia, Zyda, Pratt, Barham.. (1994)   (Correct)
This paper explores the issues involved in designing and developing network software architectures for large scale virtual environments. We present our ideas in the context of NPSNET-IV, the first 3D ... / -artificial intelligence for autonomous agents or entities. integrating

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

2261.3   Caltech Infospheres Project Overview: Information Infrastructures for .. - Mani Chandy (1996)   (Correct)
ions for sessions as objects. Abstractions for patterns of sessions. 2. Abstractions for synchronizing between sessions. We will extend the abstractions and theory of concurrent threads sharing an add... / Tcl work GCKR on secure mobile agents and the TACOMA work JvRS

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

2243.6   Towards a Design-Based Analysis of Emotional Episodes - Wright, Sloman, Beaudoin (1996)   (Correct)
The design-based approach is a methodology for investigating mechanisms capable of generating mental phenomena, whether introspectively or externally observed, and whether they occur in humans, other ... / our high level design for autonomous agents including the distinction

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

2209.8   MAP: Design and Implementation of a Mobile Agents Platform - Puliafito, Tomarchio, Vita (2000)   (Correct)
The recent development of telecommunication networks has contributed to the success of applications such as information retrieval and electronic commerce, as well as all the services that take advanta... / Design and Implementation of a Mobile Agents Platform Antonio Puliafito

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

2196.3   Exploiting Process Integration and Composition in the Context of.. - Fayman, Pirjanian, Christensen..   (Correct)
The visual robustness of biological systems is in part due to their ability to actively integrate (fuse) information from a number of visual cues [2], [29]. In addition to active integration, the perc... / development of reliable autonomous agents. One starts with a

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

2179.5   Exploration Strategies for Model-based Learning in Multi-agent Systems - Carmel, Markovitch (1997)   (Correct)
An agent that interacts with other agents in multi-agent systems can benefit significantly from adapting to the others. When performing active learning, every agent's action affects the interaction ... / for Model-based Learning in Multi-agent Systems David Carmel and

2176.3   A Generalized Reinforcement-Learning Model: Convergence and.. - Littman, Szepesvári (1996)   (Correct)
Reinforcement learning is the process by which an autonomous agent uses its experience interacting with an environment to improve its behavior. The Markov decision process (mdp) model is a popular way... / is the process by which an autonomous agent uses its experience

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

2163.4   Integrating Pedagogical Agents into Virtual Environments - Johnson, Rickel, Stiles, Munro (1998)   (Correct)
In order for a virtual environment to be effective as a training tool, it is not enough to concentrate on the fidelity of the renderings and the accuracy of the simulated behaviors. The environment sh... / are incorporated into autonomous agents that interact with trainees.

2160.1   A Hybrid Procedural/Deductive Executive For Autonomous Spacecraft - Pell, Gamble, Gat, Keesing, Kurien.. (1997)   (Correct)
The New Millennium Remote Agent (NMRA) will be the first AI system to control an actual spacecraft. The spacecraft domain places a strong premium on autonomy and requires dynamic recoveries and robust... / plan execution in embedded autonomous agents. In Pryor L.ed.Procs. br for Dynamic Rational Mobile Agents. Ph.D. Dissertation Computer

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

2124.8   Circle In The Round: State Space Attractors for Evolved Sighted Robots - Husbands, Harvey, Cliff (1995)   (Correct)
This paper presents an analysis of an artificially evolved dynamical network-based control system for a simulated autonomous mobile robot engaged in simple visually guided tasks. Keywords. Genetic ... / evolution for developing autonomous agents. In order to progress most

2118.9   Reinforcement Learning Soccer Teams with Incomplete World Models - Marco Wiering, Rafal P. Salustowicz, .. (1999)   (Correct)
We use reinforcement learning (RL) to compute strategies for multiagent soccer teams. RL may profit significantly from world models (WMs) estimating state transition probabilities and rewards. In hi... / Our goal is to build teams of autonomous agents that learn to play soccer

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

2115.3   What Sort of Computation Mediates Best between Perception and Action? - Murray Shanahan (1999)   (Correct)
This paper addresses the question of what sort of computation should be used to mediate between perception and action. Drawing on recent work in the area of Cognitive Robotics, the paper argues for th... / instead on studying complete autonomous agents. Cliff page

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

2113.6   Remembering, Rehearsal and Empathy - Towards a Social and Embodied.. - Dautenhahn, Christaller (1996)   (Correct)
This paper is meant as a basis for discussion towards a framework for cognitive architectures integrating remembering, rehearsal, language and empathy. It describes the programmatic background of our ... / concrete work on intelligent autonomous agents. The goal is to motivate a

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

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