Requirements interaction management (RIM) is the set of activities directed toward the
discovery, management, and disposition of critical relationships among sets of requirements …

Simulated annealing and Boltzmann machines: a stochastic approach to combinatorial
optimization and neural computing | Guide books skip to main content ACM Digital Library …

There has been increased research interest in systems composed of multiple autonomous
mobile robots exhibiting cooperative behavior. Groups of mobile robots are constructed, with …

Provides a unified, coherent account of machine interaction at the level of the machine
designers (the society of designers) and the level of the machine interaction itself (the …

Most artificial intelligence research investigates intelligent behavior for a single agent--
solving problems heuristically, understanding natural language, and so on. Distributed …

Since its publication, Essentials of Artificial Intelligence has been adopted at numerous
universities and colleges offering introductory AI courses at the graduate and undergraduate …

Behavioral norms are key ingredients that allow agent coordination where societal laws do
not sufficiently constrain agent behaviors. Whereas social laws need to be enforced in a top …

There has been increased research interest in systems composed of multiple autonomous
mobile robots exhibiting collective behavior. Groups of mobile robots are constructed, with …

2 chapter contains examples of intelligent agents, arranged according to their appli cation
areas. Chapter 7 closes with a prospective view of the future development of intelligent …

In the last few years, there has been increasing interest from the agent community in the use
of techniques from decision theory and game theory. Our aims in this article are firstly to …