September 09, 2010
 
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Joint activity in human-agent-robot teamwork
Paul J. Feltovich, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, and Mathew Johnson
Joint-activity theory enables system design to accommodate the demands of interdependence.

Intelligent agents for the smart grid
Alex Rogers and Nicholas R. Jennings
A novel approach delivers the autonomous, intelligent behaviour required of the smart grid.

SATURN, the UK Ministry of Defence Grand Challenge winner
Ken Wahren
A major robotics competition generated many ideas to detect military threats in the urban environment.

Trust and cooperation for critical resource sharing in sensor networks
Giuseppe Persiano and Angelo De Caro
Groups working together improves not just overall performance but also individual benefits for the components of a system.

Intelligence, control and the artificial mind
Ricardo Sanz
Artificial intelligence and cognitive science must look at the world of industrial-process control to find the technological reifications of the concept of mind.

NASA deploys intelligent software agent technology
Maarten Sierhuis, William J. Clancey, and Timothy Hall
A new automated flight-control system for the International Space Station reduces workload by 90% by employing ethnographic observation and agent-based modelling and simulation.

Social adaptation in conversational agents
Stefan Kopp
Technology interfaces can improve human-machine interaction when they learn to adapt to users in social settings.

Self-organizing ants find new paths to scalability
Robert Tolksdorf
The principles of locality and decentralization found in nature could be the key to managing Web data traffic, as shown in initial experiments with a semantic store.

Simulating the emergence and innovation of norms
Ulf Lotzmann, Michael Möhring, and Klaus G. Troitzsch
Modelling situations in which agents can take offence at other agents' behaviour enables them to invent, learn and evolve social rules in a realistic way.

Diplomacy game: the test bed
Angela Fabregues and Carles Sierra
A rich shared-application domain is helping to further current research on negotiation and trust.