PAGODA (Probabilistic Autonomous GOalDirected Agent) is an autonomous intelligent agent that explores a novel environment, building a model of the world and using the model to plan its actions [desJardins, 1992b]. PAGODA incorporates solutions to the problems of selecting learning tasks, choosing a learning bias, classifying observations, and performing induetire learning of world models under ...

Supply chains are ubiquitous in the manufacturing of many complex products. Traditionally, supply chains have been created through the interactions of human representatives of the companies involved, but advances in autonomous agent technologies have sparked an interest in automating the process. The Trading Agent Competition Supply Chain Management (TAC SCM) scenario provides a unique testbed ...

ly, and change perceptual or behavioral strategies. Conversely, as intelligent software agents are required to operate more and more on human terms, responding to sensory Figure 1. The Autonomous Agent. The TRC platform serves as a mobile base. A stereo camera pair mounted on the front of the rig is used for obstacle detection. A third camera mounted on a pan platform is used for target detecti...

The Game Description Language (GDL) has been developed for the purpose of formalizing game rules. It serves as the input language for general game players, which are systems that learn to play previously unknown games without human intervention. In this paper, we show how GDL descriptions can be intepreted as multiagent domains and, conversely, how a large class of multiagent environments can b...

The important and hazardous of the rescue mission in oceans and seas, autonomous vessels now are one of the most appropriate applications among others. Due to safety, reliability, and accessibility of smart, Autonomous and Cooperative vessels today has attracted much attention from the industry. Regard to the complication of the mono vessel for different objects, the multi- agent system was pro...

Open Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) are formed by autonomous and heterogeneous agents that may pursue different and even conflicting goals. Therefore, no assumption can be a priori made about their behaviours. Thus, it is needed to constrain the potential excesses of agent autonomous behaviour by means of regulation of agent interaction. Because of this, “social” notions, such as organizations, inst...

This paper describes the design of the Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment, a software agent that has been running on-board the EO-1 spacecraft since 2003. The agent recognizes science events, retargets the spacecraft to respond to the science events, and reduces data downlink to only the highest value science data. The autonomous science agent was designed using a layered architectural approach...