Planning problems are, in general, PSPACE-complete; large problems, especially multi-agent with required co-ordination, can be intractable or impractical to solve. Factored planning and both address this by separating into tractable sub-problems, but there are limitations the expressivity of existing planners ability handle tightly coupled problems. This paper presents EGOPLAN, a framework whic...

warranty as a kind of service contract today plays a role key in business and legal transactions. in this paper, we present a manufacturer, an agent and a customer's model under different service contracts suggestions. the manufacturer's profit is maximized by determining sale price, warranty period and warranty price. in addition we obtain optimal maintenance cost or repair cost for ...

t is now almost five years since the main international agent standardisation effort FIPA (the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents) was founded. This issue of AgentLink News provides an update on the ongoing FIPA activities including overviews of the new structure of FIPA, recent advances, the current set of specifications, an overview of current open source implementations, and future a...

Agent Academy (AA) aims to develop a multi-agent society that can train new agents for specific or general tasks, while constantly retraining existing agents in a recursive mode. The system is based on collecting information both from the environment and the behaviors of the acting agents and their related successes/failures to generate a body of data, stored in the Agent Use Repository, which ...

Objective: The aim of the present review is to give an overview about the role, biosynthesis, and characteristics of Podophyllotoxin (PTOX) as a potential antitumor agent with particular emphasis on key biosynthesis processes, function of related enzymes and characterization of genes encoding the enzymes. Materials and Methods: Google scholar, PubMed and Scopus were searched for literatures wh...

Filtration index of the drilling fluid is an important parameter of well drilling, especially at drilling-in the reservoirs. Standard parameter in the study of drilling fluids is static filtration index. At the same time, it is more feasible to determine dynamic filtration index, if considering actual conditions of the well. Use of polymer carbonate-weighted drilling fluids is advisable at dril...