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Predicting the Expected Behavior of Agents that Learn About Agents: The CLRI Framework
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-01)
We describe a framework and equations used to model and predict the behavior of multi-agent systems (MASs) with learning agents. A difference equation is used for calculating the progression of an agent's error in its ...
Browse and Search Patterns in a Digital Image Database
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-01)
A prototype image retrieval system with browse and search capabilities was developed to investigate patterns of searching a collection of digital visual images, as well as factors, such as image size, resolution, and ...
Rational Coordination in Multi-Agent Environments
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-12)
We adopt the decision-theoretic principle of expected utility maximization as a paradigm for designing autonomous rational agents, and present a framework that uses this paradigm to determine the choice of coordinated ...
Emergent Properties of a Market-based Digital Library with Strategic Agents
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-03)
The University of Michigan Digital Library (UMDL) is designed as an open system that allows third parties to build and integrate their own profit-seeking agents into the marketplace of information goods and services. The ...
Term and citation retrieval: A field study
(Elsevier, 1993)
The relative efficacy of searching by terms and by citations is investigated with real searches collected in health sciences libraries. The objective is to seek evidence to confirm or refute findings from a controlled pilot ...
Rational Communication in Multi-Agent Environments
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-09)
We address the issue of rational communicative behavior among autonomous self-interested agents that have to make decisions as to what to communicate, to whom, and how. Following decision theory, we postulate that a rational ...
Integrated Premission Planning and Execution for Unmanned Ground Vehicles
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1998-03)
Fielding robots in complex applications can stress the human operators responsible for supervising them, particularly because the operators might understand the applications but not the details of the robots. Our answer ...
Global and local collaborators: A study of scientific collaboration
(Elsevier, 1992)
Increased co-authorship in schistosomiasis has been shown to be associated with research funding. The small core of grantees is highly prolific. Furthermore, strong evidence points to the existence of two types of co-authors, ...