Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Papers from the Thirteenth International Workshop
Mark Klein and Kish Sharma Program Cochairs
Technical Report WS-94-02 published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
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Contents
Preface / v
Mark Klein and Kish sharma
A First Step Toward the Formal Analysis of Solution Quality in FA/C Distributed Interpretation Systems / 1
Norman Carver and Victor Lesser
A Relation Graph Formulation for Relationships Among Agents / 17
B. Chaib-draa, J. Desharnais, Sylvain Lizotte
Designing a Family of Coordination Agorithms / 32
Keith S. Decker and Victor R. Lesser
Distributed Problem Solving and Multi-Agent Systems: Comparisons and Examples / 52
Edmund H. Durfee and Jeffrey S. Rosenschein
The Utility of Embedded Communications and the Emergence of Protocols / 63
Edmund H. Durfee, Piotr Gmytrasiewicz, and Jeffrey S. Rosenschein
A Non-Manipulable Meeting Scheduling System / 72
Eithan Ephrati, Gilad Zlotkin, and Jeffrey S. Rosenschein
KQML--A Language and Protocol for Knowledge and Information Exchange / 93
Tim Finin and Rick Fritzon
The Automated Mapping of Plans for Plan Recognition / 104
Marcus J. Huber, Edmund H. Durfee, Michael P. Wellman
Global Information Management via Local Autonomous Agents / 120
Michael N. Huhns, Munindar P. Singh, Tomasz Ksiezyk, and Nigel Jacobss
Bridging Humans Via Agent Networks / 142
Toru Ishida
Information Sharing Among Heterogeneous Reusable Agents in Cooperative Distributed Search / 154
Susan E. Lander, Victor R. Lesser, and M. V. Nagendra Prasad
Distributed Problem Solving through Coordination in a Society of Agents / 169
JyiShane Liu and Katia Sycara
Strategies for Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems / 186
Q. Y. Luo, P.G. Hendry, J. T. Buchanan
Introspection as Control in Result-Sharing Assumption-Based Reasoning Agents / 201
Cindy Lea Mason
Integrating Agent Interaction into a Planner-Reactor Architecture / 229
Joerg Mueller and Markus Pischel
Long Term Constraints in Multiagent Negotiation / 244
Michael Palatnik and Jeffrey S. Rosenschein
Multi-Agent Mental-State Recognition and its Application to Air Combat Modeling / 262
Anand S. Rao and Graeme Murray
An Exchange Protocol Without Enforcement / 284
Tuomas Sandholm and Victor Lesser
Adaptive Surrogate Agents / 299
Sandip Sen and Edmund H. Durfee
Manufacturing Information Coordination and System Integration by a Multi-agent Framework / 314
Riyaz Sikora and Michael J. Shaw
RMM’s Solution Concept and the Equilibrium Point Solution / 341
Jose M. Vidal and Edmund H. Durfee
Application of Distributed AI and Cooperative Problem Solving to Telecommunications / 353
Robert Weihmayer and Hugo Velthuijsen
Formalizing the Cooperative Problem Solving Process / 378
Michael Wooldridge and Nichlas R. Jennings
Machine Discovery Terminology / 463
Willi Klosge and Jan M. Zytkow
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