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Efficient meta-level control in bounded-rational agents

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Anita Raja,

Victor LesserAuthors Info & Claims

AAMAS '03: Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems

Pages 1104 - 1105

https://doi.org/10.1145/860575.860817

Published: 14 July 2003 Publication History

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An important issue for complex agents operating in open real-time environments is how to sequence execution and computation actions without consuming too many resources. An empirical approach to this meta-level control problem is presented. We show that explicit meta-level control leads to significant improvement in agent performance.

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Efficient meta-level control in bounded-rational agents
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Control methods
    2. Search methodologies
2. Theory of computation
  1. Design and analysis of algorithms
    1. Algorithm design techniques
      1. Dynamic programming

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AAMAS '03: Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems

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DOI:10.1145/860575

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Japan

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Horling BLesser VVincent RWagner T(2018)The Soft Real-Time Agent Control ArchitectureAutonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems10.1007/s10458-005-3998-912:1(35-91)Online publication date: 26-Dec-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10458-005-3998-9
Weigang LDib MAlves DCrespo A(2010)Intelligent computing methods in Air Traffic Flow ManagementTransportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies10.1016/j.trc.2009.06.00418:5(781-793)Online publication date: Oct-2010
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2009.06.004
Alves DWeigang LSouza B(2006)Using meta-level control with reinforcement learning to improve the performance of the agentsProceedings of the Third international conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery10.1007/11881599_138(1109-1112)Online publication date: 24-Sep-2006
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