Diaconesses Become Global Agents

When Agents Become Principals:

This paper argues that the publishing of academic research by and large belongs to the public sector domain, and that the scientific knowledge stemming from the public sectors is important for innovation. In 2004 the Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions (UHR) introduced an incentive based system in which academic institutions receive economic compensation as a function or thei...

Agents Need to Become Welcome

To succeed, agents need to become part of legacy and future systems that are not agent oriented. That means agents must be able to run (and migrate) on servers that are not based on multi-agent platforms. Also, agents will have to be able to communicate using languages and protocols that are not dedicated to them, such as HTML. Last, agents need to be able to adapt (themselves) to modifications...

Can Some Marine-Derived Fungal Metabolites Become Actual Anticancer Agents?

Marine fungi are known to produce structurally unique secondary metabolites, and more than 1000 marine fungal-derived metabolites have already been reported. Despite the absence of marine fungal-derived metabolites in the current clinical pipeline, dozens of them have been classified as potential chemotherapy candidates because of their anticancer activity. Over the last decade, several compreh...

When management agents become autonomous, how to ensure their reliability?

Global optimization for multiple agents

In many situations, agents optimize their own operations locally but their local problems are interdependent. We consider the problem of coordinating these local problems to find a globally optimal solution. We model the coordination problem as a Distributed Constraint Optimization Problem that can take advantage of the locality of interactions, and then show how incremental elicitation and sol...