Publication - Toward Robust Agent Control in Open Environments

Authors: Raja, Anita, Lesser, Victor, and Wagner, Thomas
Title: Toward Robust Agent Control in Open Environments
Abstract: Open environments are characterized by their uncertainty and non-determinism. This poses an inevitable challenge to construction of agents which need to operate in such environments. The agents need to adapt their processing to available resources, deadlines, the goal criteria specified by the clients as well their current problem solving context in order to survive. Our research focuses on constructing a framework for robust agent control, using a soft-real time scheduling approach which satisfices all aspects of problem solving. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of our heuristic-based approach using the performance of the policy generated by an optimal controller as the benchmark.
Keywords: Agent Control, Contingency, Distributed MDP
Publication: Proceedings of 5th International Conference of Autonomous Agents(AA 2000). Also Umass CS Technical Report 1999-059, pp. 84 - 91
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Date: June 2000
Sources: PS: ftp://ftp.cs.umass.edu/pub/techrept/techreport/1999/UM-CS-1999-059.ps
PDF: /Documents/UM-CS-1999-059.pdf
Reference: Raja, Anita, Lesser, Victor, and Wagner, Thomas. Toward Robust Agent Control in Open Environments. Proceedings of 5th International Conference of Autonomous Agents(AA 2000). Also Umass CS Technical Report 1999-059, pp. 84-91. June 2000.
bibtex: 
@article{Raja-181,
  author    = "Anita Raja and Victor Lesser and Thomas Wagner",
  title     = "{Toward Robust Agent Control in Open Environments}",
  journal   = "Proceedings of 5th International Conference of
               Autonomous Agents(AA 2000).  Also Umass CS
               Technical Report 1999-059",
  pages     = "84-91",
  month     = "June",
  year      = "2000",
  address   = "Barcelona, Spain",
  url       = "http://mas.cs.umass.edu/paper/181",
}