{"title":"Separating domain and coordination in multi-agent organizational design and instantiation","authors":"M. Sims, D. Corkill, V. Lesser","doi":"10.1109/IAT.2004.1342938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IAT.2004.1342938","url":null,"abstract":"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 multi-agent systems. An important aspect of our approach is the separation of application-specific organizational issues from more generic organizational coordination mechanisms. We describe our model of organizational design and our search process. We also present example organizations generated by our automated system for the distributed sensor network domain under different environmental characteristics and performance requirements.","PeriodicalId":281008,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, 2004. (IAT 2004).","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128141129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Agent based simulation of information diffusion in a virtual market place","authors":"F. Neri","doi":"10.1109/IAT.2004.1342964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IAT.2004.1342964","url":null,"abstract":"An agent based tool for analysing market behaviour under several rate of information diffusion is described. This methodology allows for the study of tradeoffs among several variables of information like product advertisement efforts, consumers' memory span, and passing word among friends in determining market shares. Insights gained by using this approach on a hypothetical economy are reported.","PeriodicalId":281008,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, 2004. (IAT 2004).","volume":"2159 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127469802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning how to plan and instantiate a plan in multi-agent coalition","authors":"Xin Li, Leen-Kiat Soh","doi":"10.1109/IAT.2004.1343000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IAT.2004.1343000","url":null,"abstract":"We propose an innovative two-step learning approach to planning-instantiation for multi-agent coalition formation in dynamic, uncertain, real-time, and noisy environments. The first step learns about the planning of a coalition to improve its quality, adapting to the real-time and environmental requirements. The second step learns about the instantiation of the plan to improve the formation process, taking into account uncertain and dynamic behaviors of the peer agents. Decomposing the approach into two steps allows for modularity and flexibility in learning: learning how to plan a coalition is strategic while learning how to instantiate a plan is tactical. Our approach employs a case-based reinforcement learning (CBRL) framework.","PeriodicalId":281008,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, 2004. (IAT 2004).","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126296487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Predicting agents tactics in automated negotiation","authors":"Chongming Hou","doi":"10.1109/IAT.2004.1342934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IAT.2004.1342934","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents a learning mechanism that applies nonlinear regression analysis to predict a negotiation agent's behaviour based only the opponent's previous offers. The behaviour of negotiation agents in this study is determined by their tactics in the form of decision functions. Heuristics based on estimates of an agent's tactics are drawn from a series of experiments. The findings of this empirical study show that this approach can be used to obtain better deals than existing decision function tactics. The learning mechanism can be used online, without any prior knowledge about other agents and is therefore, very useful in open systems where agents have little or no information about each other.","PeriodicalId":281008,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, 2004. (IAT 2004).","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122867345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abdul-Rahman Mawlood-Yunis, A. Nayak, D. Nussbaum, N. Santoro
{"title":"Comparing performance of two mobile agent platforms in distributed search","authors":"Abdul-Rahman Mawlood-Yunis, A. Nayak, D. Nussbaum, N. Santoro","doi":"10.1109/IAT.2004.1342987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IAT.2004.1342987","url":null,"abstract":"We study the performance behavior of two mobile agent platforms (AGLET and TACOMA) in distributed search. The search problem is analyzed from two different standpoints: the single agent search and multiple agents search. Several experimental were carried out to measure the performance of mobile agent's solution to distributed search problem under variable network size, network topology and number of agents. The results indicate that the two mobile agent platforms have similar behavior but their performance varies with underling implementation, and the multiple agents approach performs better than the single agent approach in large networks.","PeriodicalId":281008,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, 2004. (IAT 2004).","volume":"238 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122977292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adding flexibility to a room booking system using argumentation-inspired negotiations as mediated by mobile agents","authors":"W. Cheah, S. Loke, S. Krishnaswamy, Sea Ling","doi":"10.1109/IAT.2004.1342981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IAT.2004.1342981","url":null,"abstract":"Ideas from argumentation-based negotiation can be incorporated into human-agent interaction (HAI) to increase the flexibility of a system and allow greater user control. However, this can increase the complexity of system design and implementation. This work discusses the use of mobile agents in mediating the interaction between people, and between people and a system, including resolving conflicts through negotiation in a flexible and user controllable manner. This work also discusses the issues and design principles for argumentation-based negotiation in HAI in the context of a flexible smart room booking system.","PeriodicalId":281008,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, 2004. (IAT 2004).","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123024657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"User-aware videoconference session control using software agents","authors":"J. A. Blaya, P. M. Ruiz, A. Gómez-Skarmeta","doi":"10.1109/IAT.2004.1342968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IAT.2004.1342968","url":null,"abstract":"This work is focused in the proposal of a new approach based on intelligent agents for the initiation, control and adaptation of a multimedia session. Typically, multimedia sessions are managed through the SIP (session initiation protocol) Internet protocol. When the session is negotiated, very little is said at the SIP specification about how to decide on which configuration, among the possible ones, is the most suitable for the agents playing the protocol interaction. We propose a negotiation mechanism based on the monotonic concession protocol to obtain an optimal joint utility for both peers.","PeriodicalId":281008,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, 2004. (IAT 2004).","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128621378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cooperative multiagent systems for the optimization of urban traffic","authors":"E. Bitting, A. Ghorbani","doi":"10.1109/IAT.2004.1342941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IAT.2004.1342941","url":null,"abstract":"The risks and benefits of trusting others in a cooperative context is discussed and the notion of social rationality is used to establish these ideas in the realm of autonomous rational agents (utility maximizers). A traffic simulation is introduced to test the ideas presented in this work. The simulation consists of traffic lights controlled by cooperative autonomous agents, each of whom is given mechanisms to implement social rationality. Results using cooperative traffic agents are compared to results of control simulations where non-cooperative agents were deployed. Results predictably show a loss of local efficiency and a gain of global efficiency with the cooperative agents in comparison to their non-cooperative counterparts.","PeriodicalId":281008,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, 2004. (IAT 2004).","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129097105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluating multiagent systems: a record/replay approach","authors":"M. Huget, Y. Demazeau","doi":"10.1109/IAT.2004.1343013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IAT.2004.1343013","url":null,"abstract":"The adoption of multiagent systems by companies and users requires that it is possible to verify the properties of the multiagent systems. The main candidate of this verification is model checking but as sketched in the paper, it presents drawbacks such as combinatorial explosion or it does not take the environment into account. Model checking seems to be restricted to small systems with few agents. We present a different approach used in testing called the record/replay mechanism. We add as well a post-mortem analysis. This work describes the advantages of this approach and how we have implemented it in the MadKit platform.","PeriodicalId":281008,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, 2004. (IAT 2004).","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117085188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ATSpace: a middle agent to support application oriented matchmaking and brokering services","authors":"Myeong-Wuk Jang, A. Ahmed, G. Agha","doi":"10.1109/IAT.2004.1342979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IAT.2004.1342979","url":null,"abstract":"An important problem for agents in open multiagent systems is how to find agents that match certain criteria. A number of middle agent services - such as matchmaking and brokering services - have been proposed to address this problem. However, the search capabilities of such services are relatively limited since the match criteria they use are relatively inflexible. We propose ATSpace, a model to support application-oriented matchmaking and brokering services. Application agents in ATSpace deliver their own search algorithms to a public tuple space which holds agent property data; the tuple space executes the search algorithms on this data. We show how the ATSpace model increases the dynamicity and flexibility of a middle agent service. Unfortunately, the model also introduces security threats: the data and access control restrictions in ATSpace may be compromised, and system availability may be affected. We describe some mechanisms to address these security threats.","PeriodicalId":281008,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, 2004. (IAT 2004).","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114606951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}