Constraints and Agents
Papers from the AAAI Workshop
Eugene C. Freuder, Program Chair
Technical Report WS-97-05 published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
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Contents
Constraints and Agents / v
Eugene C. Freuder
Compromise Strategies for Constraint Agents / 1
Eugene C. Freuder and Peggy S. Eaton
Dynamic Prioritization of Complex Agents in Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems / 8
Aaron Armstrong and Edmund Durfee
An Incomplete Method for Solving Distributed Valued Constraint Satisfaction Problems / 14
Michel Lemaitre and Gerard Verfaillie
Java Constraint Library: Bringing Constraints Technology on the Internet Using the Java Language / 21
Marc Torrens, Rainer Weigel and Boi Faltings
NoGood Caching for MultiAgent Backtrack Search / 26
William S. Havens
A Testbed For the Evaluation of Multi-Agent Communication and Problem-Solving Strategies / 32
Dorothy L. Mammen and Victor R. Lesser
Constraints and Agents for a Decentralized Network Infrastructure / 39
Jean Marc Andreoli, Uwe M. Borghoff, Remo Pareschi, Stefano Bistarelli, Ugo Montanari, and Francesca Rossi
Constraint-Based Agents / 45
Alexander Nareyek
Constraint-based Specification Of Reactive Multi-Agent Systems / 51
Amol Dattatray Mali
Controlling Agents in Smart Matter with Global Constraints / 58
Bjorn Carlson, Vineet Gupta and Tad Hogg
Technology of Active Objects / 64
I. Shvetsov, T. Nesterenko and S. Starovit
Waffler: A Constraint-Directed Approach to Intelligent Agent Design / 70
John Anderson
Combining Constraint Propagation and Backtracking for Distributed Engineering / 76
Charles Petrie, Heecheol Jeon, and Mark R. Cutkosky
Constraints and Agents in MADE-smart / 83
Leo Obrst
Constraint-Based Discourse Agents / 87
Toby Donaldson and Robin Cohen
Distributed Component-Centered Design as Agent-Based Distributed Constraint Optimization / 93
Van Parunak, Al Ward, Mitch Fleischer, John Sauter, and Tzyy-Chuh Chang
Multi-agent Planning via Mutually Constraining the Space of Behaviour / 100
Austin Tate
Suggestion Strategies for Constraint-Based Matchmaker Agents / 105
Eugene C. Freuder and Richard J. Wallace
Agent-Based Cooperative Scheduling / 112
Seshahayee Murthy, John Rachlin, Rama Akkiraju and Fredrick Wu
Contract-Based Distributed Scheduling for Distributed Processing / 118
David J. Musliner and Mark S. Boddy
Distributed Medical Evacuation Planning: What Problem Should Each Agent Solve? / 129
Victor Saks, Gretchen Braidic, Alexander Kott, and Corey Kirschner
Iterative Constraint-based Repair for Multiagent Scheduling / 136
Kazuo Miyashita
Producing and Improving Time Tables by Means of Constraint and Multi-agent Systems / 142
Kay Anke, Rainer Staudte, and Werner Dilger
Solving a Real-life Nurses Time Tabling and Transportation Problem Using Distributed CSP Techniques / 148
Gadi Solotorvsky and Ehud Gudes
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