This paper presents a new experiment undertaken in the artificial society introduced by Epstein and Axtell [1]. The artificial society basically consists of a "cellular" landscape that contains resources and a population of agents that move around in ...

In the field of multi-agent systems, a lot of attention has been focused lately on investigating various architectures and methodologies that promote effective organization and coordination within large-scale, complex, distributed systems. Specifically, ...

This paper describes MiBiblio, a highly personalizable interface to large collections in digital libraries. MiBiblio allows users to create virtual places we term personal spaces. As users find useful items in the repositories, they organize these items ...

This paper presents the design and implementation of negotiation agents that negotiate with other entities for acquiring multiple resources. In our approach, agents utilize a time-dependent negotiation strategy in which the reserve price of each negotiation ...

A multiplayer dice game was realized which is played by two users and one embodied conversational agent. During the game, the players have to lie to each other to win the game and the longer the game commences the more probable it is that someone is ...

The tutorial T2: Designing and Implementing an Intelligent Ubiquitous Information System in Java at EUSAI 2004 introduces the concepts and tools necessary for the participants to develop intelligent agentbased information systems. The potent and flexible ...

The information available on the World Wide Web changes with incredible speed. New information is added and old information is altered. This means that a document which is important to a user accessing the Web may change, move or even disappear altogether. ...

This paper describes a framework for the coordination and integration of information systems. By modeling typical enterprise information systems as consisting of multiple agents with different functionalities, the methodology provides the representational ...

We present a novel paradigm for human to human asymmetric collaboration. There is a need for people at geographically separate locations to seamlessly collaborate in real time as if they are physically co-located. In our system one user (novice) works ...

Abstract: This paper discusses a heterarchical scheduling approach for flexible manufacturing systems. The workcells comprising the manufacturing process and the products to be generated are modeled as autonomous agents which interact dynamically to ...

Presents the results of an evaluation of several agent-based dynamic task allocation strategies which we have developed for information systems spread over the Internet or other wide area networks (WANs). These strategies are based on the cooperation ...

This article is part of a special issue on Intelligent Agents in Healthcare. Healthcare information systems can use agent-oriented cooperation techniques and standardized, electronic healthcare-record-exchange protocols to combine information about the ...

Social knowledge is one of the key aspects of MAS in order to face complex problems in dynamical environments. However, it is usually incorporated without specific support on behalf of the platform and that does not let agents take all of the advantage ...

We model a simple communication network model for the evolution of heterogeneous beliefs in an overlapping generation economy. Each agent gathers information from his contacts and forms an inflation forecast based on this information, using the belief ...

In this paper we present an architectural framework designed to increase the survivability of software agent nodes in a distributed system.A multi-layered model replaces the original node software. Original computational requirements of the node are ...

This paper describes a Conscious Tutoring System (CTS) capable of dynamic fine-tuned assistance to users. We put forth the integration of an Episodic Learning mechanism within CTS that allows it to first establish, through data mining algorithms, gross ...

In this paper a control and simulation of traffic control is presented. A standardized geo-referenced map is used to provide adaptability at any country. Also the application can be deployed in a distributed manner at any level of a country due to the ...

This paper examines the security aspects of different pervasive scenarios involving agent communities evolved using multi agent systems (MAS). It describes the motivation and the objectives behind the development of these agent communities and analyses ...

Improved classification performance has practical real-world benefits ranging from improved effectiveness in detecting diseases to increased efficiency in identifying firms that are committing financial fraud. Multiclassifier combination (MCC) aims to ...