This paper addresses the problem of scheduling jobs in soft real-time systems, where the utility of completing each job decreases over time. We present a utility-based framework fo...
In this paper we investigate the emergence of communication in competitive multi-agent systems. A competitive environment is created with two teams of agents competing in an explo...
Michelle McPartland, Stefano Nolfi, Hussein A. Abb...
Agents in dynamic environments have to deal with world rep- To appear in: RoboCup 2005: Robot Soccer World Cup IX, c Springer-Verlag, 2006 resentations that change over time. In or...
Andreas D. Lattner, Andrea Miene, Ubbo Visser, Ott...
In this paper, we describe a method for pedagogical agents to choose when to interact with learners in interactive learning environments. This method is based on observations of h...
In an open environment such as the Internet, the decision to collaborate with a stranger (e.g., by granting access to a resource) is often based on the characteristics (rather tha...