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European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems
About: European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems is an academic conference. The conference publishes majorly in the area(s): Multi-agent system & Autonomous agent. Over the lifetime, 239 publication(s) have been published by the conference receiving 1952 citation(s).
Topics: Multi-agent system, Autonomous agent, Model checking, Ontology (information science), Situated
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TL;DR: This paper aims to contribute with a generic model for active perception in situated multi-agent systems, which decomposes perception into three functionalities: sensing, interpreting, and filtering.
Abstract: Modeling the environment and agent-environment relationships is not well explored in multi-agent systems, in particular not for software multi-agent systems. This paper aims to contribute with a generic model for active perception in situated multi-agent systems. Active perception enables an agent to direct its perception at the most relevant aspects in the environment, according to its current task. The model decomposes perception into three functionalities: sensing, interpreting, and filtering. The agent first senses its neighborhood through a set of selected foci, resulting in a representation. A set of perceptual laws enforces domain specific constraints on sensing. Next, the agent interprets the representation by means of descriptions, resulting in a percept. Percepts are expressions that can be understood by the internal machinery of the agent. Finally, the percept is filtered by a set of selected filters, restricting the perceived data according to specific context relevant selection criteria.
93 citations
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TL;DR: An existing agent architecture is adapted, providing it with internalization capabilities, turning it into EMIL-I-A, and experiments have proven satisfactory results with respect to the maintenance of cooperation in a proof-of-concept simulation.
Abstract: Internalization is at study in social-behavioural sciences and moral philosophy since long; of late, the debate was revamped within the rationality approach to the study of cooperation and compliance since internalization is a less costly and more reliable enforcement system than social control. But how does it work? So far, poor attention was paid to the mental underpinnings of internalization. This paper advocates a rich cognitive model of different types, degrees and factors of internalization. In order to check the individual and social effect of internalization, we have adapted an existing agent architecture, EMIL-A, providing it with internalization capabilities, turning it into EMIL-I-A. Experiments have proven satisfactory results with respect to the maintenance of cooperation in a proof-of-concept simulation.
83 citations
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01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: Extensive experiments indicate that the field-based approach for task assignment in an AGV transportation system outperforms the standard Contract Net approach on various performance measures, such as the average wait time of transports and throughput.
64 citations
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07 Dec 2005
TL;DR: This paper presents an organizational model Moise Inst aiming at specifying the rights and duties of agents in society according to four points of view: structural, functional, contextual and normative.
63 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, a new type of combinatorial auction is introduced that allows agents to bid for goods to buy, for items to sell, and for transformations of goods, which can be seen as a step in a production process, so solving the auction requires choosing the sequence in which the accepted bids should be implemented.
Abstract: We introduce a new type of combinatorial auction that allows agents to bid for goods to buy, for goods to sell, and for transformations of goods. One such transformation can be seen as a step in a production process, so solving the auction requires choosing the sequence in which the accepted bids should be implemented. We introduce a bidding language for this type of auction and analyse the corresponding winner determination problem.
54 citations