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A Scalable Comparison-Shopping Agent for the World-Wide Web

by Robert B. Doorenbos, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld - In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents , 1997
"... The Web is less agent-friendly than we might hope. Most information on the Web is presented in loosely structured natural language text with no agent-readable semantics. HTML annotations structure the display of Web pages, but provide virtually no insight into their content. Thus, the designers of i ..."
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of intelligent Web agents need to address the following questions: (1) To what extent can an agent understand information published at Web sites? (2) Is the agent's understanding sufficient to provide genuinely useful assistance to users? (3) Is site-specific hand-coding necessary, or can the agent

Interaction and Intelligent Behavior

by Maja J Mataric , 1994
"... This thesis addresses situated, embodied agents interacting in complex domains. It focuses on two problems: 1) synthesis and analysis of intelligent group behavior, and 2) learning in complex group environments. Basic behaviors, control laws that cluster constraints to achieve particular goals and h ..."
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This thesis addresses situated, embodied agents interacting in complex domains. It focuses on two problems: 1) synthesis and analysis of intelligent group behavior, and 2) learning in complex group environments. Basic behaviors, control laws that cluster constraints to achieve particular goals

The Uses Of Plans

by Martha E. Pollack - Artificial Intelligence , 1992
"... this paper, I will argue that, contrary to these challenges, planning deserves its central place on the AI map. I will claim that intelligent agents are planning agents, and that philosophical and commonsense psychological theorizing about the process of planning can provide useful insights into the ..."
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this paper, I will argue that, contrary to these challenges, planning deserves its central place on the AI map. I will claim that intelligent agents are planning agents, and that philosophical and commonsense psychological theorizing about the process of planning can provide useful insights

Patterns of Intelligent and Mobile Agents

by Elizabeth A. Kendall, P. V. Murali Krishna, Chirag V. Pathak, C. B. Suresh - In Proc. of the second international conference on Autonomous agents , 1998
"... Agent systems must have a strong foundation; one approach that has been successfully applied to other kinds of software is patterns. This paper presents a collection of patterns for agents. 2. MOTIVATION Almost all agent development to date has been "home grown" [4] and done from scratch, ..."
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Agent systems must have a strong foundation; one approach that has been successfully applied to other kinds of software is patterns. This paper presents a collection of patterns for agents. 2. MOTIVATION Almost all agent development to date has been "home grown" [4] and done from scratch

The Intelligent Home Testbed

by Victor Lesser, Michael Atighetchi, Brett Benyo, Bryan Horling, Victor Lesser Michael Atighetchi, Anita Raja, Regis Vincent, Ping Xuan and Shelley XQ. Zhang, Thomas Wagner, Ping Xuan, Shelley Xq. Zhang - Proceedings of the Autonomy Control Software Workshop , 1999
"... Intelligent environments are an interesting development and research application problem for multi-agent systems. The functional and spatial distribution of tasks naturally lends itself to a multi-agent model and the existence of shared resources creates interactions over which the agents must coord ..."
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coordinate. In the UMASS Intelligent Home project we have designed and implemented a set of distributed autonomous home control agents and deployed them in a simulated home environment. Our focus is primarily on resource coordination, though this project has multiple goals and areas of exploration ranging

The UMASS intelligent home project.

by Victor Lesser , Michael Atighetchi , Brett Benyo , Bryan Horling , Anita Raja , Rcgis Vincent , Thomas Wagner , Ping Xuan , Shelley Xq Zhang - In Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference on Autonomous Agents, , 1999
"... Abstract Intelligent environments are an interesting development and research application problem for multi-agent systems. The functional and spatial distribution of tasks naturally lends itself to a multi-agent model and the existence of shared resources creates interactions over which the agents ..."
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must coordinate. In the UMASS Intelligent Home project we have designed and implemented a set of distributed autonomous home control agents and deployed them in a simulated home environment. Our focus is primarily on resource coordination, though this project has multiple goals and areas of exploration

ROADMAP: Extending the Gaia Methodology for Complex Open Systems

by Thomas Juan, Adrian Pearce, Leon Sterling , 2002
"... This paper is concerned with improving the software engineering of agent-based open systems. It critiques the existing Gaia methodology in the light of a motivating example of intelligent home networks. It describes the ROADMAP methodology, which extends Gaia with four improvements - formal models o ..."
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This paper is concerned with improving the software engineering of agent-based open systems. It critiques the existing Gaia methodology in the light of a motivating example of intelligent home networks. It describes the ROADMAP methodology, which extends Gaia with four improvements - formal models

Use of Intelligent Agents in Home Entertainment

by Mehrdad Jalali-Sohi Fraunhofer, Mehrdad Jalali-sohi
"... The transition from analog to digital video is about to bring the expected convergence of television, computer and communication, however a suitable platform for delivery of multimedia interactive services has not emerged yet. In this paper the approach of the EMBASSI project in the field of easy ..."
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content access and retrieval for home usage is introduced.

A society of self organizing agent in the intelligent home

by Werner Dilger , 1998
"... A concept of the intelligent home is presented which is based on the idea that the functioning of the intelligent home emerges from the cooperation of different agents each representing a device of the home. The agents are grouped together in systems each of which realizes a certain function of the ..."
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A concept of the intelligent home is presented which is based on the idea that the functioning of the intelligent home emerges from the cooperation of different agents each representing a device of the home. The agents are grouped together in systems each of which realizes a certain function

MavHome: An Agent-Based Smart Home

by Diane Cook Michael, Michael Youngblood, Edwin O. Heierman, Karthik Gopalratnam, Sira Rao, Andrey Litvin, Farhan Khawaja , 2003
"... The goal of the MavHome (Managing An Intelligent Versatile Home) project is to create a home that acts as an intelligent agent. ..."
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The goal of the MavHome (Managing An Intelligent Versatile Home) project is to create a home that acts as an intelligent agent.
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