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How Can AI Systems Deal with Large and Complex Problems? - Model Building as Problem Solving |
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Steps Toward the Permanent Colonization of Cyberspace |
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8 | (1) |
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Robot-Discoverer: A Role Model for Any Intelligent Agent |
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9 | (6) |
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Intelligent Agents: Embodied and Disembodied |
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15 | (3) |
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A framework for Multi-Agent Systems Development |
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18 | (10) |
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A Reactive Scheduling Agent Architecture for Coordinating Autonomous Assistants |
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28 | (10) |
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Evaluating the FIPA Standards on the Field: An Audio Video Entertainment Application |
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38 | (10) |
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A Multi-Agent Approach to Self-Organizing Vision Systems |
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48 | (5) |
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Robot Media Communication: A Real-World Guide Agent to Construct Transparent Knowledge Boundaries between Real and Virtual Spaces |
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53 | (5) |
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Gate Growth: Grammar Encoded Evolutionary Design for Autonomous Agent |
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58 | (6) |
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Facilitate Agreement in Cooperative Design by Detecting Irrational Claims in Negotiation |
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64 | (10) |
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Mutual Valuations between Agents and their Coalitions |
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74 | (10) |
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Reinforcement Learning with Bidding for Automatic Segmentation |
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84 | (10) |
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How to Cooperate in Iterated Chicken Game and Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma |
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94 | (5) |
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An Argument-Based Agent System with the Contract Net Protocol |
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99 | (5) |
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Design and Implementation of Multi-Agent Coordination |
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104 | (6) |
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From A Life Agents to a Kingdom of N Queens * |
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110 | (11) |
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Soap Bubbles and the Dynamical Behavior of Multi-Agent Systems |
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121 | (10) |
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The Motivation for Dynamic Adaptive Autonomy in Agent-Based Systems * |
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131 | (10) |
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A Team Model in a Dynamic Fire World |
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141 | (5) |
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How Flexible Should Agent Behaviour Languages Be? |
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146 | (6) |
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Knowledge Granularity Spectrum, Action Pyramid, and the Scaling Problem |
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152 | (10) |
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Embodied Ontologies: Ontologies for Real Agents |
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162 | (10) |
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Recipe Structure for Dynamic Worlds * |
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172 | (10) |
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Dynamic Planning Model for Agent's Preferences Satisfaction: First Results * |
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182 | (10) |
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Belief-Goal-Role Agents: From Conception to Specification |
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192 | (10) |
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Modeling Sociality in the BDI Framework |
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202 | (5) |
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Modeling Agents as Reflective Intentional Systems |
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207 | (5) |
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Circumscribed-Polyhedron Approximation for Maximum Hypersphere Search |
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212 | (10) |
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An Agent System in Stratums Theory |
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222 | (5) |
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Luis Carlos Molina Acevedo |
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Towards Situation-Specific Agent Theories |
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227 | (7) |
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Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Agents |
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Integration of Multiple Heterogeneous Databases Using a Client-Side Meta Search Agent |
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234 | (10) |
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Active User Interfaces for Building Decision-Theoretic Systems |
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244 | (10) |
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System Expansion and Integration with Agents in HSTAT |
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254 | (5) |
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An Agent-Based Architecture in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining |
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259 | (5) |
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Learning Novel Concepts through Natural Language |
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264 | (5) |
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An Efficient K-Means-Based Clustering Algorithm |
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269 | (5) |
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Design of Robust, Survivable Intrusion Detection Agent |
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274 | (5) |
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A Bayesian Alarm Network as Independent Intrusion Detection System |
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279 | (7) |
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A Personalized Web Agent with Implicit Feedback and Hybrid Filtering Strategy |
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286 | (10) |
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User Profile Based Personalized Web Agent |
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296 | (10) |
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Multi-Agent Based Approach for Information Retrieval in the WWW |
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306 | (11) |
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Information Filtering on the Web: A Hybrid Case-Based Approach * |
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317 | (10) |
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Distributed Information Retrieval Agent JMAT |
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327 | (5) |
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Engineering Information Discovery and Monitoring Systems along the Dimensions of Agency and Ontology |
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332 | (5) |
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Intelligent Information Discovery with Self-Training Autonomous Agents |
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337 | (5) |
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More Efficient Web Searching by Modeling Users' Long-Term Goals |
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342 | (5) |
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Information Retrieval Agents Based on Evolutionary Computation to Reflect User Preference |
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347 | (7) |
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Training Intelligent Agents Using Human Internet Data * |
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354 | (10) |
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Goodinator: Quick and Prudent Meeting Coordination with a Multi-Agent System |
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364 | (10) |
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An Adaptive Meeting Scheduling Agent |
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374 | (5) |
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Microsoft Agent, A Multi-Client Programming Interface for Interactive Computer Characters |
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379 | (5) |
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Natural Language Processing in Multi-Agent Systems |
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384 | (5) |
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Software Interface Agents |
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389 | (7) |
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Instrusion Detection and Intrusion Route Tracing by Use of Mobile Agents |
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396 | (10) |
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Intention Spreading: An Extensible Theme to Protect Mobile Agents from Read Attack Hoisted by Malicious Hosts |
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406 | (10) |
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Learning Improves Mobile Agent Efficiency |
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416 | (10) |
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DBMAS: A Multi-Agent System for Databases |
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426 | (10) |
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Increasing the Dependability in a Multi-Agent System |
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436 | (5) |
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An Efficient Fault-Tolerant Protocol for Mobile Agents |
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441 | (7) |
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Agent-Supported Enterprise |
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Improving Telecom Service Access Convergence Using Software Agents |
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448 | (9) |
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Allocative Auctions: An Application Context for CSCW and Intelligent Agents |
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457 | (10) |
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Supporting Coordination: A Multi-Agent Approach |
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467 | (5) |
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Supporting Collaborative Building Design: A Multi-Agent Approach |
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472 | (6) |
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Self-Adaptation and Reconfiguration of an Agent-Based Production System: Virtual Factory |
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478 | (5) |
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Agent-Based Information Gathering System for Life Cycle Costs |
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483 | (5) |
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Applying Market Based Agent to Fuzzy Decision Support System |
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488 | (5) |
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Virtual Enterprise Information System |
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493 | (5) |
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A Virtual Shop Navigation System Based on the Multi-Agent Technology |
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| Author Index |
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