MODELING AWARENESS OF AGENTS USING POLICIES

Amir Talaei-Khoei, Pradeep Ray, Nandan Parameswaran, Ghassan Beydoun

2011

Abstract

In addition to cooperation, research in disaster management exposes the need for policy awareness to recognize relevant information in enhancing cooperation. Intelligent software agents have previously been employed for problem solving in disaster situations but without incorporating how the agents can create or model awareness. This paper presents an awareness based modelling method, called MAAP, to maintain awareness of software agents of a given set of policies. The paper presents preliminary results indicating that the use of policies as a source of awareness, as facilitated by MAAP, is a potentially effective method to enhance cooperation.

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Talaei-Khoei A., Ray P., Parameswaran N. and Beydoun G. (2011). MODELING AWARENESS OF AGENTS USING POLICIES . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software and Database Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8425-77-5, pages 353-358. DOI: 10.5220/0003436403530358


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft11,
author={Amir Talaei-Khoei and Pradeep Ray and Nandan Parameswaran and Ghassan Beydoun},
title={MODELING AWARENESS OF AGENTS USING POLICIES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software and Database Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,},
year={2011},
pages={353-358},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003436403530358},
isbn={978-989-8425-77-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software and Database Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,
TI - MODELING AWARENESS OF AGENTS USING POLICIES
SN - 978-989-8425-77-5
AU - Talaei-Khoei A.
AU - Ray P.
AU - Parameswaran N.
AU - Beydoun G.
PY - 2011
SP - 353
EP - 358
DO - 10.5220/0003436403530358