Distributed sensor network for real time tracking

B Horling, R Vincent, R Mailler, J Shen… - Proceedings of the fifth …, 2001 - dl.acm.org
In this paper we describe our solution to a real-time distributed resource allocation
application involving distributed situation assessment. The hardware configuration consists …

[PDF][PDF] The intelligent home testbed

V Lesser, M Atighetchi, B Benyo, B Horling, A Raja… - environment, 1999 - academia.edu
Intelligent environments are an interesting development and research application problem
for multi-agent systems. The functional and spatial distribution of tasks naturally lends itself …

An agent infrastructure to build and evaluate multi-agent systems: The java agent framework and multi-agent system simulator

R Vincent, B Horling, V Lesser - … for Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and …, 2001 - Springer
In this paper, we describe our agent framework and address the issues we have
encountered designing a suitable environmental space for evaluating the coordination and …

[PDF][PDF] A multi-agent system for intelligent environment control

V Lesser, M Atighetchi, B Benyo, B Horling… - Proceedings of the …, 1999 - researchgate.net
Intelligent environments are an interesting development and research application problem
for multiagent systems. The functional and spatial distribution of tasks naturally lends itself to …

The soft real-time agent control architecture

B Horling, V Lesser, R Vincent, T Wagner - Autonomous Agents and Multi …, 2006 - Springer
Real-time control has become increasingly important as technologies are moved from the
lab into real world situations. The complexity associated with these systems increases as …

[PDF][PDF] Dynamic skill learning: A support to agent evolution

JC Routier, P Mathieu, Y Secq - … of the AISB'01 Symposium on …, 2001 - cristal.univ-lille.fr
In this paper, we show that every agent can be built from an atomic agent through dynamic
skill acquisition, a skill being a coherent set of abilities. At first, we propose a definition of an …

Architectural design of component-based agents: A behavior-based approach

JP Briot, T Meurisse, F Peschanski - International Workshop on …, 2006 - Springer
This paper relates an experience in using a component model to design and construct
agents. After discussing various rationales and architectural styles for decomposing an …

The UMASS intelligent home project

V Lesser, M Atighetchi, B Benyo, B Horling… - Proceedings of the third …, 1999 - dl.acm.org
Intelligent environments are an interesting development and research application problem
for multi-agent systems. The functional and spatial distribution of tasks naturally lends itself …

Malaca: A component and aspect-oriented agent architecture

M Amor, L Fuentes - Information and Software Technology, 2009 - Elsevier
The production of maintainable and reusable agents depends largely on how well the agent
architecture is modularized. Most commercial agent toolkits provide an Object-Oriented (OO) …

Using autonomy, organizational design and negotiation in a distributed sensor network

B Horling, R Mailler, J Shen, R Vincent… - … Sensor Networks: A …, 2003 - Springer
In this paper we describe our solution to a real-time distributed tracking problem. The system
works not by finding an optimal solution, but through a satisficing search for an allocation …