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Intelligent agents: Theory and practice

by Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R. Jennings - The Knowledge Engineering Review , 1995
"... The concept of an agent has become important in both Artificial Intelligence (AI) and mainstream computer science. Our aim in this paper is to point the reader at what we perceive to be the most important theoretical and practical issues associated with the design and construction of intelligent age ..."
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of agents. Agent architectures can be thought of as software engineering models of agents; researchers in this area are primarily concerned with the problem of designing software or hardware systems that will satisfy the prop-erties specified by agent theorists. Finally, agent languages are software systems

Query evaluation techniques for large databases

by Goetz Graefe - ACM COMPUTING SURVEYS , 1993
"... Database management systems will continue to manage large data volumes. Thus, efficient algorithms for accessing and manipulating large sets and sequences will be required to provide acceptable performance. The advent of object-oriented and extensible database systems will not solve this problem. On ..."
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. On the contrary, modern data models exacerbate it: In order to manipulate large sets of complex objects as efficiently as today’s database systems manipulate simple records, query processing algorithms and software will become more complex, and a solid understanding of algorithm and architectural issues

O-Plan: the Open Planning Architecture

by Ken Currie, Austin Tate , 1990
"... O-Plan is an AI planner based on previous experience with the Nonlin planner and its derivatives. Nonlin and other similar planning systems had limited control architectures and were only partially successful at limiting their search spaces. O-Plan is a design and implementation of a more flexible s ..."
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O-Plan is an AI planner based on previous experience with the Nonlin planner and its derivatives. Nonlin and other similar planning systems had limited control architectures and were only partially successful at limiting their search spaces. O-Plan is a design and implementation of a more flexible

Experiences with an Architecture for Intelligent, Reactive Agents

by R. Peter Bonasso, R. James Firby , Erann Gat , David Kortenkamp, David P. Miller , Marc G. Slack
"... This paper describes an implementation of the 3T robot architecture which has been under development for the last eightyears. The architecture uses three levels of abstraction and description languages whichare compatible between levels. The makeup of the architecture helps to coordinate planful ..."
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planful activities with real-time behaviors for dealing with dynamic environments. In recent years, other architectures have been created with similar attributes but two features distinguish the 3T architecture: 1) a variety of useful software tools have been created to help implement

An Architecture-Based Approach to SelfAdaptive Software

by Peyman Oreizy, Michael M. Gorlick, Richard N. Taylor, Dennis Heimbigner, Gregory Johnson, Nenad Medvidovic, Alex Quilici, David S. Rosenblum, Er L. Wolf - IEEE Intelligent Systems 14(3):54 - 62 , 1999
"... A fleet of unmanned air vehicles undertakes a mission to disable an enemy airfield. Pre-mission intelligence indicates that the airfield is not defended, and mission planning proceeds accordingly. While the UAVs are en route to the target, new intelligence indicates that a mobile surface-to-air miss ..."
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automatically upload and are integrated into the SAM-suppression unit’s software. In this scenario, new software components are dynamically inserted into fielded, heterogeneous systems without requiring system restart, or indeed, any downtime. Mission replanning relies on analyses that include feedback from

Agent theories, architectures, and languages: a survey

by Michael J. Wooldridge, Nicholas R. Jennings , 1995
"... The concept of an agent has recently become important in Artificial Intelligence (AI), and its relatively youthful subfield, Distributed AI (DAI). Our aim in this paper is to point the reader at what we perceive to be the most important theoretical and practical issues associated with the design and ..."
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about the properties of agents. Agent architectures can be thought of as software engineering models of agents; researchers in this area are primarily concerned with the problem of constructing software or hardware systems that will satisfy the properties specified by agent theorists. Finally, agent

Remote Agent: To Boldly Go Where No AI System Has Gone Before

by Nicola Muscettola , P. Pandurang Nayak , Barney Pell , Brian C. Williams , 1998
"... Renewed motives for space exploration have inspired NASA to work toward the goal of establishing a virtual presence in space, through heterogeneous effets of robotic explorers. Information technology, and Artificial Intelligence in particular, will play a central role in this endeavor by endowing th ..."
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. The Remote Agent integrates constraint-based temporal planning and scheduling, robust multi-threaded execution, and model-based mode identification and reconfiguration. The demonstration of the integrated system as an on-board controller for Deep Space One, NASA's rst New Millennium mission

Router plugins: A software architecture for next generation routers

by Dan Decasper, Zubin Dittia, Guru Parulkar, Bernhard Plattner - IEEE/ACM transactions on Networking , 1998
"... Present day routers typically employ monolithic operating systems which are not easily upgradahle and extensible. With the rapid rate of protocol development it is becoming increasingly important to dynamically upgrade router software in an incre-mental fashion. We have designed and implemented a hi ..."
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high performance, modular, extended integrated services router software architecture in the NetBSD operating system kernel. This architecture allows code modules, called plugins, to be dynamically added and configured at run time. One of the novel features of our design is the ability to bind different

On Three-Layer Architectures

by Erann Gat - Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Robots , 1998
"... firestorm of interest in autonomous robots with the introduction of the Subsumption architecture 1 [Brooks86]. At the time, the dominant view in the AI community was that a control system for an autonomous mobile robot should be decomposed into three functional elements: a sensing system, a planning ..."
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firestorm of interest in autonomous robots with the introduction of the Subsumption architecture 1 [Brooks86]. At the time, the dominant view in the AI community was that a control system for an autonomous mobile robot should be decomposed into three functional elements: a sensing system, a

FOR NEXT-GENERATION NASA MISSIONS

by Dr. John, S. Baras, Lin Lin
"... There is considerable interest at this time in developing small satellites for quick-turnaround missions to investigate near-earth phenomena from space. The aim of the thesis is to investigate issues related to the migration from current Pre-planned Multiple Access operation mode to the next generat ..."
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-assigned scheme. Simulation results demonstrate that on-demand mode is a suitable strategy for next-generation NASA space mission with unpredictable traffic pattern, and can offer certain performance advantages. ON-DEMAND MULTIPLE ACCESS
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