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AMI
2010
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
An Agent-Based Approach to Care in Independent Living
This paper presents a multi-agent system for the care of elderly people living at home on their own, with the aim to prolong their independence. The system is composed of seven gro...
Bostjan Kaluza, Violeta Mirchevska, Erik Dovgan, M...
ESAW
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Using Constraints and Process Algebra for Specification of First-Class Agent Interaction Protocols
Abstract. Current approaches to multi-agent interaction involve specifying protocols as sets of possible interactions, and hard-coding decision mechanisms into agent programs in or...
Tim Miller, Peter McBurney
CDC
2008
IEEE
161views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
16 years 1 months ago
Distributed policies for equitable partitioning: Theory and applications
Abstract— The most widely applied resource allocation strategy is to balance, or equalize, the total workload assigned to each resource. In mobile multi-agent systems, this princ...
Marco Pavone, Emilio Frazzoli, Francesco Bullo
ATAL
2005
Springer
16 years 7 days ago
Argumentation-based dialogues for deliberation
This paper presents an argumentation-based approach to deliberation, the process by which two or more agents reach a consensus on a course of action. The kind of deliberation we a...
Yuqing Tang, Simon Parsons
ATAL
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
A reinforcement learning based distributed search algorithm for hierarchical peer-to-peer information retrieval systems
The dominant existing routing strategies employed in peerto-peer(P2P) based information retrieval(IR) systems are similarity-based approaches. In these approaches, agents depend o...
Haizheng Zhang, Victor R. Lesser