Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems II: Adaptation and Multi-Agent Learning

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Gödel Machines: Towards a Technical Justification of Consciousness....Pages 1-23
Postext – A Mind for Society....Pages 24-40
Comparing Resource Sharing with Information Exchange in Co-operative Agents, and the Role of Environment Structure....Pages 41-54
Baselines for Joint-Action Reinforcement Learning of Coordination in Cooperative Multi-agent Systems....Pages 55-72
SMART (Stochastic Model Acquisition with ReinforcemenT) Learning Agents: A Preliminary Report....Pages 73-87
Towards Time Management Adaptability in Multi-agent Systems....Pages 88-105
Learning to Coordinate Using Commitment Sequences in Cooperative Multi-agent Systems....Pages 106-118
Reinforcement Learning of Coordination in Heterogeneous Cooperative Multi-agent Systems....Pages 119-131
Evolving the Game of Life....Pages 132-146
The Strategic Control of an Ant-Based Routing System Using Neural Net Q-Learning Agents....Pages 147-166
Dynamic and Distributed Interaction Protocols....Pages 167-184
Advice-Exchange Between Evolutionary Algorithms and Reinforcement Learning Agents: Experiments in the Pursuit Domain....Pages 185-204
Evolving Strategies for Agents in the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma in Noisy Environments....Pages 205-215
Experiments in Subsymbolic Action Planning with Mobile Robots....Pages 216-229
Robust Online Reputation Mechanism by Stochastic Approximation....Pages 230-244
Learning Multi-agent Search Strategies....Pages 245-259
Combining Planning with Reinforcement Learning for Multi-robot Task Allocation....Pages 260-274
Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning in Stochastic Single and Multi-stage Games....Pages 275-294
Towards Adaptive Role Selection for Behavior-Based Agents....Pages 295-312
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