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Recent research in the area of active networking has demonstrated strong potential and promise for this new technology. Nodes in the active networking model differ from their passive counterparts in their ability to provide intermediate processing to ...
Self-Stabilization is an important concept for distributed computing and communication networks. It describes a system's ability to recover automatically from unexpected failure. It is also an important issue for multiagent systems, as they are ...
This paper addresses the structural and behavioral characteristics of multi-agent system (MAS) for Quality of Service (QoS) management using MESSAGE (Methodology for Engineering Systems of Software Agents) modeling language that extends UML (Unified ...
With the increasing size of the Internet, proxy servers have emerged as a feasible way to reduce the overall network load and latency. More recently researchers focused on new ways to combine multiple cooperative proxies into one transparent proxy ...
We present experimental results from a distributed surveillance task in which multiple miniature robots (called Scouts) automatically position themselves in an area and watch for motion. We discuss how the limited communication bandwidth affects how the ...
The dynamics of how groups move through space to accomplish common goals must be understood to create realistic synthetic environments. One potential method for creating such multiagent behaviors is to replay prerecorded examples of group movements. ...
Partnership between a person and a robot could be enhanced if the robot were intelligent enough to recognize an individual and adapt its behavior. During the last several years, we have been developing such an intelligent robot in the form of a humanoid ...
This paper describes a method for acquiring procedural knowledge for use by pedagogical agents in interactive simulation-based learning environments. Such agents need to be able to adapt their behavior to the changing conditions of the simulated world, ...
We present methods for anticipatory behavior in simulated graphical creatures. We discuss in general terms the importance of anticipatory behavior through explicit expectation formation. We present an in-depth description of a specific type of ...
A high variety of Quality of Service (QoS) in data transmission over wireless networks creates challenges that have not been adequately addressed in today's Internet-based services. Whereas today's distributed applications may result in treating rapid ...
A question frequently asked in multi-agent systems (MASs) concerns the efficient search for suitable agents to solve a specific problem. To answer this question, different types of middle agents are usually employed. The performance of middle agents ...
This paper attempts to construct a flexible and effective organisation involving users and middle agents in distributed information systems. In particular, middle agents are employed to organise users according to users" expressed characteristics (e.g. ...
In traditional preference modeling approaches, agents can express preferences among a pair of alternatives in three distinct ways: either an agent has a strict preference of one alternative compared to the other, or is indifferent between both ...
Reproducing daily behaviours requires to be able to schedule behaviours depending on resources and priority constraints. A simple way is to say that behaviours which are using the same resources are mutually exclusive. This approach is not sufficient to ...
In this paper, we address the problem of decision-making under uncertainty for the task selection problem. We consider an environment where an agent has to select tasks to execute in a way which maximizes his gain. The main motivation is the new ...
This paper shows how to use a decision-theoretic task scheduler in order to automatically generate efficient intention selection functions for BDI agent-oriented programming languages. We concentrate here on the particular extensions to a known BDI ...
Information marketplaces enable entities to buy and sell information; these buying and selling entities can be humans, or automated agents that represent them. In this paper, we introduce a new type of participant into electronic information ...
We consider the problem of finding desirable services and sources of information in distributed multiagent systems. Traditional solutions, such as centralized directories, may be inaccurate and may often be unavailable in such settings. Therefore, the ...