Agent Simulation

This is a selection of publications in Journals and International Conferences with research relevant to the Agent Simulation competition. The most influential RoboCup Rescue Simulation League publications can be found here. There is an equivalent selection of publications of the Virtual Robot competition.

Last updated: March 28, 2021

2021

2019

  • Yuki Miyamoto, Taishun Kusaka, Yuki Okado, Kazunori Iwata and Nobuhiro Ito, “An Approach for Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems in Rescue Simulation“, RoboCup 2019: RoboCup 2019: Robot World Cup XXIII, December 2019, pp 578-590.
  • Amar Nath, A. R. Arun and Rajdeep Niyogi “A distributed approach for road clearance with multi-robot in urban search and rescue environment”, International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications, November 2019, p 1-15.
  • Arnoud Visser, Luis G. Nardin and Sebastian Castro, “Integrating the latest Artificial Intelligence algorithms into the RoboCup Rescue Simulation framework”, Springer Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series LNAI 11374,  2019, pp  476-487. [ doi ]
  • Shunki Takami, Masaki Onishi, Itsuki Noda, Kazunori Iwata, Nobuhiro Ito, Takeshi Uchitane and Yohsuke Murase, “Infrastructure in Assessing Disaster-Relief Agents in the RoboCupRescue Simulation. In: Computational Science/Intelligence and Applied Informatics. CSII 2019. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 848. Springer, Cham
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  • Gerostathopoulos, I., Skoda, D., Plasil, F., Bures, T. & Knauss, A. (2019). Tuning self-adaptation in cyber-physical systems through architectural homeostasis. Journal of Systems and Software, 148, 37-55. [ doi ]
  • Shi, H., Zhang, R., Sun, G. & Chen, J. (2019). Clustering-based task coordination to search and rescue teamwork of multiple agents. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 16(2), 172988141983115. [ doi ]

2018

  • Chen, J., Wang, J., Xiao, Q. & Chen, C. (2018). A multi-robot task allocation method based on multi-objective optimization. In Proceedings of the 2018 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (pp. 1868-1873). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. [ doi ]
  • Frasheri, M., Curuklu, B., Esktrom, M. & Papadopoulos, A. V. (2018). Adaptive autonomy in a search and rescue scenario. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (pp. 150-155). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. [ doi ]
  • Kusaka, T., Miyamoto, Y., Hasegawa, A., Takami, S., Iwata, K. & Ito, N. (2018). Effective fusion of disaster-relief agent in RoboCupRescue Simulation. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Science/ Intelligence and Applied Informatics (pp. 78-83). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. [ doi ]
  • Paravisi, M., Jorge, V. A. M. & Amory, A. (2018). Toward an accurate hydrologic urban flooding simulations for disaster robotics. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics . Setúbal: SciTePress. [ doi ]
  • Parker, J., Farinelli, A. & Gini, M. (2018). Lazy max-sum for allocation of tasks with growing costs. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 110, 44-56. [ doi ]
  • Samaad, T., Tahir, G. A., ur-Rahman, M. & Ashraf, M. (2018). Comparative performance analysis between agent-based and conventional diaster management system. In Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Smart Computing and Electronic Enterprise (pp. 1-6). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. [ doi ]
  • Takami, S., Takayanagi, K., Jaishy, S., Ito, N. & Iwata, K. (2018). Agent-development framework based on modular structure to research disaster-relief activities. International Journal of Software Innovation, 6(4), 1-15. [ doi ]
  • Takami, S., Onishi, M., Iwata, K., Ito, N., Murase, Y. & Uchitane, T. (2018). An environment for combinatorial experiments in a multi-agent simulation for disaster response. In T. Miller, N. Oren, Y. Sakurai, I. Noda, B. Savarimuthu & S. T. Cao (Eds.), PRIMA 2018: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (Vol. 11224, pp. 646-654). Cham: Springer. [ doi ]
  • Takami, S., Takayanagi, K., Jaishy, S., Ito, N., Iwata, K., Murase, Y. & Uchitane, T. (2018). Proposed environment to support development and experiment in RoboCupRescue Simulation. In H. Akiyama, O. Obst, C. Sammut & F. Tonidandel (Eds.), RoboCup 2017: Robot World Cup XXI (Vol. 11175, pp. 71-83). Cham: Springer. [ doi ]

2017

  • Aşık, O. & Akın, H. L. (2017). Effective multi-robot spatial task allocation using model approximations. In S. Behnke, R. Sheh, S. Sarıel & D. Lee (Eds.), RoboCup 2016: Robot World Cup XX (Vol. 9776, pp. 243-255). Cham: Springer. [ doi ]
  • Bouzouita, K., Chaari, W. L. & Tagina, M. (2017). Evaluation of agents’ management impact on performances in coalition-based cooperation. In Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications (pp. 155-162). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. [ doi ]
  • Hooshangi, N. & Alesheikh, A. A. (2017). Agent-based task allocation under uncertainties in disaster environments: An approach to interval uncertainty. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 24, 160-171. [ doi ]
  • Parker, J. E. (2017). Task allocation with growing costs (PhD thesis). University of Minnesota.
  • Parker, J., Farinelli, A. & Gini, M. (2017). Max-sum for allocation of changing cost tasks. In W. Chen, K. Hosoda, E. Menegatti, M. Shimizu & H. Wang (Eds.), Intelligent Autonomous Systems 14 (Vol. 531, pp. 629-642). Cham: Springer. [ doi ]
  • Takami, S., Takayanagi, K., Jaishy, S., Ito, N. & Iwata, K. (2017). Design of agent development framework for RoboCupRescue Simulation. In R. Lee (Eds.), Computational Science/Intelligence and Applied Informatics (Vol. 726, pp. 185-199). Cham: Springer. [ doi ]

2016

  • Correa, A. (2016). Binary max-sum for clustering-based task allocation in the RMASBench platform. In Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (pp. 1046-1053). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. [ doi ]
  • Fu, Y., Pan, W. & Lv, M. (2016). A novel multi-agent knowledge reasoning method for cooperation and confrontation. In Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Progress in Informatics and Computing (pp. 62-68). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. [ doi ]
  • Gao, X., Wu, D. & Liang, Z. (2016). Information sharing method for RCRSS in communication-limited environment. In Proceedings of the 2016 Chinese Control and Decision Conference (pp. 1256-1259). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. [ doi ]
  • Okimoto, T., Ribeiro, T., Bouchabou, D. & Inoue, K. (2016). Mission oriented robust multi-team formation and its application to Robot Rescue Simulation. In Proceedings of the 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (pp. 454-460). Palo Alto, CA: AAAI Press.
  • Sakr, F. & Abdennadher, S. (2016). Harnessing supervised learning techniques for the task planning of ambulance rescue agents. In J. van den Herik & J. Filipe (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (pp. 157-164). Setúbal: SciTePress. [ doi ]
  • Sheh, R., Schwertfeger, S. & Visser, A. (2016). 16 years of RoboCup Rescue. KI – Künstliche Intelligenz, 30(3-4), 267-277. [ doi ]

2015

  • Jaishy, S., Ito, N. & Kawabe, Y. (2015). BAR: Breakdown agent replacement algorithm for SCRAM. In Proceedings of the 2015 3rd International Conference on Applied Computing and Information Technology and the 2nd International Conference on Computational Science and Intelligence (pp. 393-398). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. [ doi ]
  • Niu, W., Xu, Y.-q., Wu, J. & Tan, Y.-z. (2015). A centralized scheduling approach to multi-agent coordination. In E. Qi, J. Shen & R. Dou (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (pp. 171-175). Paris: Atlantis Press. [ doi ]
  • Parker, J., Nunes, E., Godoy, J. & Gini, M. (2015). Exploiting spatial locality and heterogeneity of agents for search and rescue teamwork. Journal of Field Robotics, 33(7), 877-900. [ doi ]
  • Pujol-Gonzalez, M., Cerquides, J., Farinelli, A., Meseguer, P. & Rodriguez-Aguilar, J. A. (2015). Efficient inter-team task allocation in RoboCup Rescue. In Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (pp. 413-421). Richland, SC: IFAAMAS.
  • Ramchurn, S. D., Wu, F., Jiang, W., Fischer, J. E., Reece, S., Roberts, S., Rodden, T., Greenhalgh, C. & Jennings, N. R. (2015). Human-agent collaboration for disaster response. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 30(1), 82-111. [ doi ]
  • Visser, A., Ito, N. & Kleiner, A. (2015). RoboCup Rescue Simulation innovation strategy. In R. Bianchi, H. L. Akin, S. Ramamoorthy & K. Sugiura (Eds.), RoboCup 2014: Robot World Cup XVIII (Vol. 8992, pp. 661-672). Cham: Springer. [ doi ]
  • Wu, K., Lee, W. S. & Hsu, D. (2015). POMDP to the rescue: Boosting performance for Robocup Rescue. In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (pp. 5294-5299). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. [ doi ]
  • Xiang, Y., Zhiwei, L., Zhipeng, W. & Xuanyu, C. (2015). Dynamic path planning in RoboCup Rescue Simulation competition. In Proceedings of the 27th Chinese Control and Decision Conference (pp. 4341-4344). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. [ doi ]

2014

  • Abouraya, A., Helal, D., Sakr, F., Khater, N., Osama, S. & Abdennadher, S. (2014). Clustering and planning for rescue agent simulation. In S. Behnke, M. Veloso, A. Visser & R. Xiong (Eds.), RoboCup 2013: Robot World Cup XVII (Vol. 8371, pp. 125-134). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. [ doi ]
  • Aichour, H. Z. (2014). Bio-inspired collective decision making in multiagent system: From low- to high-cognition algorithms (Masters thesis). University of Calgary.
  • Belhaj, M., Kebair, F. & Said, L. B. (2014). Emotional agent model for simulating and studying the impact of emotions on the behaviors of civilians during emergency situations. In C. Hanachi, F. Bénaben & F. Charoy (Eds.), Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean Countries (Vol. 196, pp. 206-217). Cham: Springer. [ doi ]
  • Kawakami, T., Kisanuki, K., Ito, T., Iwata, K., Ito, N. & Izumi, T. (2014). Investigating the effectiveness of a moving-target oriented opportunistic routing algorithm on RoboCup Rescue Simulations. In Proceedings of the 2014 3rd International Conference on Advanced Applied Informatics (pp. 919-924). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. [ doi ]
  • Liang, Z., Yang, X. & Deng, Y. (2014). A partitioning-based task allocation strategy for police multi-agents. In Proceedings of the 26th Chinese Control and Decision Conference (pp. 2124-2128). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. [ doi ]
  • Liemhetcharat, S. & Veloso, M. (2014). Weighted synergy graphs for effective team formation with heterogeneous ad hoc agents. Artificial Intelligence, 208, 41-65. [ doi ]
  • Liu, Z. & Liang, Z. (2014). The temperature prediction model and fire control method in RoboCup Rescue. In Proceedings of the 2014 14th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (pp. 488-493). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. [ doi ]
  • Parker, J., Godoy, J., Groves, W. & Gini, M. (2014). Issues with methods for scoring competitors in RoboCup Rescue. In Proceedings of the AAMAS Workshop on Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems (pp. 1-16). .
  • Parker, J. & Gini, M. (2014). Tasks with cost growing over time and agent reallocation delays. In Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (pp. 381-388). Richland, SC: IFAAMAS.
  • Pujol-Gonzalez, M. (2014). Scaling DCOP algorithms forcooperative multi-agent coordination (PhD thesis). Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
  • Pujol-Gonzalez, M., Cerquides, J., Farinelli, A., Meseguer, P. & Rodríguez-Aguilar, J. A. (2014). Binary max-sum for multi-team task allocation in RoboCup Rescue. In Proceedings of the International Joint Workshop on Optimisation in Multi-Agent Systems and Distributed Constraint Reasoning (pp. 1-15). .
  • Sasaoka, H. (2014). Evaluation of hetero sensitivity of pheromone with ant colony optimization in RoboCup Rescue Simulation System. In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (pp. 241-244). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. [ doi ]
  • Sharbafi, M., Amirghiasvand, O. & Ramandi, S. A. (2014). Hierarchical hybrid fuzzy decision making in multi agent time critical environment. International Journal of Innovation, Management and Technology, 5(1), 56-60. [ doi ]
  • Takano, R., Yamazaki, D., Ichikawa, Y., Hattori, K. & Takadama, K. (2014). Multiagent-based ABC algorithm for autonomous rescue agent cooperation. In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (pp. 585-590). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. [ doi ]
  • Trăichioiu, M. (2014). Hierarchical decision theoretic planning for RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation (Masters thesis). University of Amsterdam.
  • Wang, W., Gao, X. & Liang, Z. (2014). A dynamic strategy based on road-partitioning model in Robocup Rescue Simulation. In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (pp. 1789-1794). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. [ doi ]

2013

  • Abdolmaleki, A., Movahedi, M., Lau, N. & Reis, L. P. (2013). A distributed cooperative reinforcement learning method for decision making in fire brigade teams. In X. Chen, P. Stone, L. E. Sucar & T. van der Zant (Eds.), RoboCup 2012: Robot Soccer World Cup XVI (Vol. 7500, pp. 237-248). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. [ doi ]
  • Akın, H. L., Ito, N., Jacoff, A., Kleiner, A., Pellenz, J. & Visser, A. (2013). RoboCup Rescue Robot and Simulation Leagues. AI Magazine, 34(1), 78-86. [ doi ]
  • Gohardani, P. D., Mirsharifi, R. & Meybodi, M. R. (2013). A rendezvous based coordination and communication model for multi-agent system. In IEEE Conference Anthology (pp. 1-4). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. [ doi ]
  • Kleiner, A., Farinelli, A., Ramchurn, S., Shi, B., Maffioletti, F. & Reffato, R. (2013). RMASBench: Benchmarking dynamic multi-agent coordination in urban search and rescue. In Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (pp. 1195-1196). Richland, SC: IFAAMAS.
  • Okaya, M., Southern, M. & Takahashi, T. (2013). Dynamic information transfer and sharing model in agent based evacuation simulations. In Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (pp. 1295-1296). Richland, SC: IFAAMAS.
  • Okaya, M. & Takahashi, T. (2013). Evacuation simulation with guidance for anti-disaster planning. In X. Chen, P. Stone, L. E. Sucar & T. van der Zant (Eds.), RoboCup 2012: Robot Soccer World Cup XVI (Vol. 7500, pp. 202-212). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. [ doi ]
  • Parker, J. E. (2013). Task allocation for multi-agent systems in dynamic environments. In Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (pp. 1445-1446). Richland, SC: IFAAMAS.
  • Sasaoka, H. (2013). Evaluation for acquiring method for agent’ actions using pheromone communication in multi-agent system. International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing, 3(1), 103-106. [ doi ]
  • Wang, Z. J., Fang, B. F. & Liu, W. (2013). Multi-agent collaborative research based on an optimization method about multiple evaluation function with hybrid particle swarm with constraints. Applied Mechanics and Materials, 380-384, 1510-1514. [ doi ]

2012

  • Hawe, G. I., Coates, G., Wilson, D. T. & Crouch, R. S. (2012). Agent-based simulation for large-scale emergency response: A survey of usage and implementation. ACM Computing Surveys, 45(1), 1-51. [ doi ]
  • Hussein, A., Gervet, C. & Abdennadher, S. (2012). Multi-agent Planning for the RoboCup Rescue Simulation – Applying Clustering into Task Allocation and Coordination. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 2, pp. 339-342). .
  • Khanal, B., Ito, N., Iwata, K. & Ishii, N. (2012). Formalization of decentralized cooperation model for disaster simulation. In J. Watada, T. Watanabe, G. Phillips-Wren, R. Howlett & L. Jain (Eds.), Intelligent Decision Technologies (Vol. 15, pp. 205-214). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. [ doi ]
  • Khojasteh, M. & Kazimi, A. (2012). Using learning automata in coordination among heterogeneous agents in a complex multi-agent domain. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, 3(3), 39-59.
  • Nowroozi, A., Shiri, M. E., Aslanian, A. & Lucas, C. (2012). A general computational recognition primed decision model with multi-agent rescue simulation benchmark. Information Sciences, 187, 52-71. [ doi ]
  • Parker, J., Nunes, E., Godoy, J. & Gini, M. (2012). Forming long term teams to explot synergies among heterogeneous agents (No. TR 12-016). University of Minnesota.
  • Pereira, A. H., Nardin, L. G. & Sichman, J. S. (2012). LTI Agent Rescue: A partial global approach for task allocation in the RoboCup Rescue. Revista de Informática Teórica e Aplicada, 19(1), 71-92.
  • dos Santos, D. S. & Bazzan, A. L. C. (2012). Distributed clustering for group formation and task allocation in multiagent systems: A swarm intelligence approach. Applied Soft Computing, 12(8), 2123-2131. [ doi ]
  • dos Santos, F., Jacobsen, G. R. d. C. & Barth, C. A. (2012). Extending the RoboCup Rescue to support stigmergy: Experiments and results. RITA, 19(2), 59-75.
  • Shahbazi, H., Salehi, S. & Movahedi, M. (2012). Delayed rewards vs. evolving fuzzy neural network, for firebrigades in RoboCupRescue Simulation. Advanced Materials Research, 433-440, 917-921. [ doi ]
  • Zhang, X., Peng, J., Hu, H., Lin, K.-C. & Wang, J. (2012). Target attraction-based ant colony algorithm for mobile robots in rescue missions. International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control, 17(2), 133-141. [ doi ]

2011

  • Abdolmaleki, A., Movahedi, M., Salehi, S., Lau, N. & Reis, L. P. (2011). A reinforcement learning based method for optimizing the process of decision making in fire brigade agents. In L. Antunes & H. S. Pinto (Eds.), Progress in Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 7026, pp. 340-351). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. [ doi ]
  • Epstein, D. & Bazzan, A. L. C. (2011). Dealing with coalition formation in the RoboCup Rescue: An heuristic approach. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (pp. 717-720). Setúbal: SciTePress. [ doi ]
  • Ghiasvand, O. A. & Sharbafi, M. A. (2011). Using earliest deadline first algorithms for coalition formation in dynamic time-critical environment. International Journal of Information and Education Technology, 1(2), 120-125. [ doi ]
  • Iwata, K., Ito, N., Koketsu, H. & Ishii, N. (2011). Analyzing map features and building information for disaster response using agent-based simulations. In A. König, A. Dengel, K. Hinkelmann, K. Kise, R. J. Howlett & L. C. Jain (Eds.), Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (Vol. 6883, pp. 616-626). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. [ doi ]
  • Mouaddib, A.-I. & Jeanpierre, L. (2011). Decentralized decision-making technique for dynamic coalition of resource-bounded autonomous agents. International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics, 4(2), 228-242. [ doi ]
  • Okaya, M. & Takahashi, T. (2011). BDI agent model based evacuation simulation. In The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (Vol. 3, pp. 1297-1298). Richland, SC: IFAAMAS.
  • Okaya, M. & Takahashi, T. (2011). Evacuation simulation with communication for anti-disaster planning. In Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (pp. 44-49). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. [ doi ]
  • Okaya, M. & Takahashi, T. (2011). Human relationship modeling in agent-based crowd evacuation simulation. In D. Kinny, J. Y. Hsu, G. Governatori & A. K. Ghose (Eds.), Agents in Principle, Agents in Practice (Vol. 7047, pp. 496-507). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. [ doi ]
  • Pereira, A. H., Nardin, L. G. & Sichman, J. S. (2011). Coordination of agents in the RoboCup Rescue: A partial global approach. In 2011 Workshop and School of Agent Systems, their Environment and Applications (pp. 45-50). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE. [ doi ]
  • Suárez Barón, S. A. (2011). Dynamic task allocation and coordination in cooperative multi-agent environments (PhD thesis). University of Girona.
  • Zeydan, B. & Akın, H. L. (2011). Market-driven multi-agent collaboration for extinguishing fires in the RoboCup Rescue simulation domain. In C. Orencik, H. Erdogan, M. A. Yatbaz, R. Aydogan, T. Mericli & T. Eren (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd Computer Science Student Workshop (pp. 5-8). Istanbul: Sabancı University.

2010

  • Chapman, A. C., Micillo, R. A., Kota, R. & Jennings, N. R. (2010). Decentralized dynamic task allocation using overlapping potential games. The Computer Journal, 53(9), 1462-1477. [ doi ]
  • Eghbali, M. & Sharbafi, M. A. (2010). Multi agent routing to multi targets via ant colony. In Proceedings of the 2010 The 2nd International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering (Vol. 1, pp. 587-591). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. [ doi ]
  • Fard, F. S. N., Parvar, H., Shiri, M. E. & Soleimani, E. (2010). Using self-configurable particle swarm optimization for allocation position of rescue robots. In Proceedings of the 2010 2nd International Conference on Computer and Network Technology . IEEE. [ doi ]
  • Goodarzi, M., Radmand, A. & Nazemi, E. (2010). An optimized solution for multi-agent coordination using integrated GA-Fuzzy approach in rescue simulation environment. In Q. Bai & N. Fukuta (Eds.), Advances in Practical Multi-Agent Systems (Vol. 325, pp. 377-388). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. [ doi ]
  • Khan, M. A., Turgut, D. & Bölöni, L. (2010). Optimizing coalition formation for tasks with dynamically evolving rewards and nondeterministic action effects. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 22(3), 415-438. [ doi ]
  • Masoumi, B., Asghari, M. & Meybodi, M. R. (2010). Utilizing learning automata and entropy to improve the exploration power of rescue agents. In Proceedings of the 2010 2nd WRI Global Congress on Intelligent Systems (Vol. 1, pp. 111-114). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. [ doi ]
  • Naja, I., Moreau, L. & Rogers, A. (2010). Provenance of decisions in emergency response environments. In D. L. McGuinness, J. R. Michaelis & L. Moreau (Eds.), Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes (Vol. 6378, pp. 221-230). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. [ doi ]
  • Nanjanath, M., Erlandson, A. J., Andrist, S., Ragipindi, A., Mohammed, A. A., Sharma, A. S. & Gini, M. (2010). Decision and coordination strategies for RoboCup Rescue agents. In N. Ando, S. Balakirsky, T. Hemker, M. Reggiani & O. von Stryk (Eds.), Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (Vol. 6472, pp. 473-484). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. [ doi ]
  • Radmand, A., Nazemi, E. & Goodarzi, M. (2010). Integrated genetic algorithmic and fuzzy logic approach for decision making of police force agents in rescue simulation environment. In J. Baltes, M. G. Lagoudakis, T. Naruse & S. S. Ghidary (Eds.), RoboCup 2009: Robot Soccer World Cup XIII (Vol. 5949, pp. 288-295). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. [ doi ]
  • Ramchurn, S. D., Polukarov, M., Farinelli, A., Truong, C. & Jennings, N. R. (2010). Coalition formation with spatial and temporal constraints. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (Vol. 3, pp. 1181-1188). Richland, SC: IFAAMAS.
  • Ramchurn, S. D., Farinelli, A., Macarthur, K. S. & Jennings, N. R. (2010). Decentralized coordination in RoboCup Rescue. The Computer Journal, 53(9), 1447-1461. [ doi ]
  • Runka, A. (2010). Genetic programming for the RoboCup Rescue Simulation System (Masters thesis). Brock University.
  • dos Santos, F. & Bazzan, A. L. C. (2010). Towards efficient multiagent task allocation in the RoboCup Rescue: a biologically-inspired approach. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 22(3), 465-486. [ doi ]
  • Sato, K. & Takahashi, T. (2010). A study of map data influence on disaster and rescue simulation’s results. In Q. Bai & N. Fukuta (Eds.), Advances in Practical Multi-Agent Systems (Vol. 325, pp. 389-402). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. [ doi ]
  • Skinner, C. & Ramchurn, S. (2010). The RoboCup Rescue Simulation platform. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (Vol. 1, pp. 1647-1648). Richland, SC: IFAAMAS.

2009

  • Anciutti, I. (2009). A learning classifier system for emergent team behavior in real-time POMDP. In Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Intelligent Systems (pp. 733-738). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. [ doi ]
  • Asghari, M., Masoumi, B. & Meybodi, M. R. (2009). Virtual and intelligent traffic signs in rescue simulation system: Imitation of human society in agent society. In Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (pp. 205-209). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. [ doi ]
  • Chapman, A. C., Micillo, R. A., Kota, R. & Jennings, N. R. (2009). Decentralised dynamic task allocation: A practical game theoretic approach. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (Vol. 2, pp. 915-922). Richland, SC: IFAAMAS.
  • Chou, W. Y. J., Marsh, L. & Gossink, D. (2009). Multi-agent coordination and optimisation in the RoboCup Rescue project. In R. S. Anderssen, R. D. Braddock & L. T. H. Newham (Eds.), Proceedings of the 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (pp. 1608-1614). .
  • Daqi, G., Yingqiu, X. & Yingzi, T. (2009). Particle filter based study of fire forecasting in RCRSS. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (pp. 1265-1268). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. [ doi ]
  • Ferreira, P. R., dos Santos, F., Bazzan, A. L. C., Epstein, D. & Waskow, S. J. (2009). RoboCup Rescue as multiagent task allocation among teams: experiments with task interdependencies. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 20(3), 421-443. [ doi ]
  • Göbelbecker, M. & Dornhege, C. (2009). Realistic cities in simulated environments: An open street map to Robocup Rescue converter. In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Synthetic Simulation and Robotics to Mitigate Earthquake Disaster (pp. 1-6). .
  • Iwata, K., Ito, N., Setoguchi, Y. & Ishii, N. (2009). Analyzing the relationship between complexity of road networks and mobile agents’ simulation. In J. D. Velásquez, S. A. Ríos, R. J. Howlett & L. C. Jain (Eds.), Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (Vol. 5712, pp. 639-647). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. [ doi ]
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2008

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2007

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2006

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2005

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2004

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2002

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2001

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2000

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1999

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1997

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