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Showing 1 to 20 of 115 for “"Autonomous agents."”.
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Explanations for Autonomous Agents
… years have seen an accelerated development of agents and systems capable of sophisticated autonomous behaviour. As the consequences of such agents' actions begin to manifest in society, the need for understanding their decisions motivates the study of mechanisms for obtaining explanations that …
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Blame Ascriptions Toward Autonomous Agents
As autonomous agents become embedded in organizational and everyday contexts, humans are increasingly delegating tasks to them. Yet when undesirable outcomes occur, people may blame the autonomous agent. This thesis investigates how blame is socially expressed, referred to as blame ascriptions, …
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Modeling Autonomous Agents In Military Simulations
… a behavior-based approach to modeling generic autonomous agents in complex environments can provide promising results. To this end, we are investigating a behavior-based model for controlling groups of collaborating and competing agents in a geographic terrain. In this thesis, we are focusing …
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Autonomous agents for serving complex information needs
… novel paradigm for information service in which autonomous agents help dissatisfied users in web communities by proactively posting responses to their unresolved queries. The main contribution of this work is to concretely define three application tasks based on this paradigm in the healthcare …
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Modeling Autonomous Agents' Behavior Using Neuro-Immune Networks
Autonomous robots are expected to interact with their dynamic changing environment. This interactions requires certain level of behavior based Intelligence, which facilitates the dynamic adaptation of the robot behavior accordingly with his surrounding environment. Many researches have been done in …
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Developing and Coordinating Autonomous Agents for Efficient Electricity Markets
… Specifically, we propose an approach where an autonomous agent acts on behalf of each household, coordinating with inhabitants to relay information and make decisions on their behalf about electricity consumption. We focus on three problems that arise in developing such agents: (i) how to …
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Decentralized planning for autonomous agents cooperating in complex missions
Planning for autonomous vehicles remains an important and challenging research topic. This thesis focuses on decentralized planning for autonomous agents performing complex missions. These types of missions often involve a set of tasks, each representing a component of the mission. Task planning …
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A Study of Autonomous Agents in Decision Support Systems
Software agents have been heralded as the most important emerging technology of the decade. As software development firms eagerly attempt to integrate these autonomous programs into their products, researchers attempt to define the concept of agency and to develop architectures that will improve …
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Planning under uncertainty and constraints for teams of autonomous agents
One of the main advantages of unmanned, autonomous vehicles is their potential use in dangerous situations, such as victim search and rescue in the aftermath of an urban disaster. Unmanned vehicles can complement human first responders by performing tasks that do not require human expertise (e.g., …
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Build-a-dude : action selection networks for computational autonomous agents
Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1991.
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A Heterosynaptic Spiking Neural System for the Development of Autonomous Agents
… level of realism and sophistication in terms of autonomous machine behaviour and cognitive computing. This thesis presents the development and demonstration of a new theoretical architecture for third generation neural systems, the Integrate-and-Fire based Spiking Neural Model with extended …
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Enabling Semantically Grounded, Long Horizon Planning and Execution for Autonomous Agents
… in coordination with teams of systems or humans. Autonomous systems of the future will need to be tightly grounded in the real world, drawing information directly from their environment to develop an understanding of the world. They will need to maintain a semantic understanding of their …
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Investigations into controllers for adaptive autonomous agents based on artificial neural networks.
This thesis reports the development and study of novel architectures for the simulation of adaptive behaviour based on artificial neural networks. There are two distinct levels of enquiry. At the primary level, the initial aim was to design and implement a unified architecture integrating …
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A unified framework for resource-bounded autonomous agents interacting with unknown environments
… for conceptualizing and constructing adaptive autonomous systems under resource constraints. The first part of this thesis contains a concise presentation of the foundations of classical agency: namely the formalizations of decision making and learning. Decision making includes: (a) subjective …
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Executive Attention, Action Selection and Attention-Based Learning in Neurally Controlled Autonomous Agents
I describe the design and implementation of an integrated neural architecture, modelled on human executive attention, which is used to control both automatic (reactive) and willed action selection in a simulated robot. The model, based upon Norman and Shallice's supervisory attention system, …
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An approach to solving constraint satisfaction problems using asynchronous teams of autonomous agents
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1994.
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Distributed coordination of autonomous agents by communicating on a need-to-know basis
Intelligent autonomous agents working cooperatively accomplish tasks more efficiently than single agents, as well as tasks that were infeasible for the single agent. For example, a single agent transporting a ton of blocks will need to take multiple trips, possibly even more trips than it can make, …
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Cathexis--a computational model for the generation of emotions and their influence in the behavior of autonomous agents
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
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Reasoning about Goal-Plan Trees in Autonomous Agents: Development of Petri net and Constraint-Based Approaches with Resulting Performance Comparisons
Multi-agent systems and autonomous agents are becoming increasingly important in current computing technology. In many applications, the agents are often asked to achieve multiple goals individually or within teams where the distribution of these goals may be negotiated among the agents. It is …
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Virtual institutions
… heterogeneous Virtual Worlds (with humans and autonomous agents participating in them), where the participants behave autonomously and make their decisions freely within the limits imposed by the set of norms of the institution. It is supported by a multilayer model and representational …
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