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Research paper thumbnail of Separating Application-Specific and Organizational Coordination Issues during Multi-Agent Organizational Design and Instantiation

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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Research paper thumbnail of Coordination assistance for mixed human and computational agent systems

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Research paper thumbnail of A Negotiation-based Interface Between a Real-time Scheduler and a Decision-Maker

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Research paper thumbnail of Modeling and Analyzing Cooperation Parameters in a Multi-Agent System

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Research paper thumbnail of Formal Modeling of Communication Decisions in Cooperative Multi-agent Systems

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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Research paper thumbnail of Markov Decision Processes

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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Research paper thumbnail of Incorporating Uncertainty in Agent Commitments

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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Research paper thumbnail of Communication in multi-agent markov decision processes

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Research paper thumbnail of A Resource-Bounded Interpretation-Centric Approach to Information Gathering

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Research paper thumbnail of Planning for the Control of an Interpretation System

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Research paper thumbnail of Inferring task structure from data

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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Research paper thumbnail of Controlling information exchange in distributed bayesian networks

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Research paper thumbnail of Integrated Signal Processing and Signal Understanding

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Research paper thumbnail of A Formal Analysis of Solution Quality in FA/C Distributed Sensor Interpretation Systems

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Research paper thumbnail of Norman Carver and Victor Lesser

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Research paper thumbnail of Blackboard-based Sensor Interpretation using a Symbolic Model of the Sources of Uncertainty in Abductive Inferences

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Research paper thumbnail of The DRESUN Testbed for Research in FA/C Distributed Situation Assessment: Extensions to the Model of External Evidence

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Research paper thumbnail of A First Step Toward the Formal Analysis of Solution Quality in FA/C Distributed Interpretation Systems

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Research paper thumbnail of A reinforcement learning based distributed search algorithm for hierarchical peer-to-peer information retrieval systems

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Research paper thumbnail of Forming and searching content-based hierarchical agent clusters in distributed information retrieval systems

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Research paper thumbnail of Separating Application-Specific and Organizational Coordination Issues during Multi-Agent Organizational Design and Instantiation

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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Research paper thumbnail of Coordination assistance for mixed human and computational agent systems

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Research paper thumbnail of A Negotiation-based Interface Between a Real-time Scheduler and a Decision-Maker

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Research paper thumbnail of Modeling and Analyzing Cooperation Parameters in a Multi-Agent System

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Research paper thumbnail of Formal Modeling of Communication Decisions in Cooperative Multi-agent Systems

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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Research paper thumbnail of Markov Decision Processes

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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Research paper thumbnail of Incorporating Uncertainty in Agent Commitments

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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Research paper thumbnail of Communication in multi-agent markov decision processes

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Research paper thumbnail of A Resource-Bounded Interpretation-Centric Approach to Information Gathering

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Research paper thumbnail of Planning for the Control of an Interpretation System

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Research paper thumbnail of Inferring task structure from data

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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Research paper thumbnail of Controlling information exchange in distributed bayesian networks

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Research paper thumbnail of Integrated Signal Processing and Signal Understanding

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Research paper thumbnail of A Formal Analysis of Solution Quality in FA/C Distributed Sensor Interpretation Systems

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Research paper thumbnail of Norman Carver and Victor Lesser

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Research paper thumbnail of Blackboard-based Sensor Interpretation using a Symbolic Model of the Sources of Uncertainty in Abductive Inferences

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Research paper thumbnail of The DRESUN Testbed for Research in FA/C Distributed Situation Assessment: Extensions to the Model of External Evidence

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Research paper thumbnail of A First Step Toward the Formal Analysis of Solution Quality in FA/C Distributed Interpretation Systems

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Research paper thumbnail of A reinforcement learning based distributed search algorithm for hierarchical peer-to-peer information retrieval systems

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