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Computer Science Technical Report, Nov 19, 2004
The ability to create effective multi-agent organizations is key to the development of larger, mo... more The ability to create effective multi-agent organizations is key to the development of larger, more diverse multi-agent systems. Organizational control provides longterm organizational goals, roles, and responsibilities as guidelines for each agent. Organizational design and instantiation is the process that accepts a set of organizational goals, performance requirements, agents, and resources and assigns responsibilities and roles to each agent. We present a prescriptive organizational design and instantiation process for ...
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When collaborative agents cannot observe the global state of an un- certain environment, they mus... more When collaborative agents cannot observe the global state of an un- certain environment, they must communicate in order to achieve their common goals, which is evaluated through a global utility function . We develop a multi- agent extension to Markov decision processes in which communication is an ex- plicit action that incurs a cost. Thus, agents have to decide not
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In this paper, we formulate agent's decision process under the framework of Markov de- cision... more In this paper, we formulate agent's decision process under the framework of Markov de- cision processes, and in particular, the multi-agent extension to Markov decision process that includes agent communication decisions. We model communication as the way for each agent to obtain local state information in other agents, by paying a certain communication cost. Thus, agents have to decide not
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Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems/Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, 1999
Abstract. Commitments,play a central role in multi-agent coordination. How- ever, they are inhere... more Abstract. Commitments,play a central role in multi-agent coordination. How- ever, they are inherently uncertain and it is important to ta ke these uncertainties into account during planning and scheduling. This paper addresses the problem of handling the uncertainty in commitments. We propose a new model of commit- ment that incorporates the uncertainty, the use of continge ncy analysis to reduce
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Abstract An algorithm is presented for fitting an expression composed of continuous and discontin... more Abstract An algorithm is presented for fitting an expression composed of continuous and discontinuous primitive functions to real-valued data points. The data modeling problem comes from the need to infer task structure for making coordination decisions for multi-agent systems. The presence of discontinuous primitive functions requires a novel approach.
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Computer Science Technical Report, Nov 19, 2004
The ability to create effective multi-agent organizations is key to the development of larger, mo... more The ability to create effective multi-agent organizations is key to the development of larger, more diverse multi-agent systems. Organizational control provides longterm organizational goals, roles, and responsibilities as guidelines for each agent. Organizational design and instantiation is the process that accepts a set of organizational goals, performance requirements, agents, and resources and assigns responsibilities and roles to each agent. We present a prescriptive organizational design and instantiation process for ...
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When collaborative agents cannot observe the global state of an un- certain environment, they mus... more When collaborative agents cannot observe the global state of an un- certain environment, they must communicate in order to achieve their common goals, which is evaluated through a global utility function . We develop a multi- agent extension to Markov decision processes in which communication is an ex- plicit action that incurs a cost. Thus, agents have to decide not
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In this paper, we formulate agent's decision process under the framework of Markov de- cision... more In this paper, we formulate agent's decision process under the framework of Markov de- cision processes, and in particular, the multi-agent extension to Markov decision process that includes agent communication decisions. We model communication as the way for each agent to obtain local state information in other agents, by paying a certain communication cost. Thus, agents have to decide not
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Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems/Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, 1999
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