Pattie Maes

Learning Curve: A Simulation-based Approach to Dynamic Pricing (2003)

We present an architecture for autonomous creatures that allows learning to be combined with action selection, based on ideas from ethology. We show how temporal-difference learning may be used...

Joan Morris Dimicco, Amy Greenwald, Pattie Maes

this article, we refer to this type of changing of prices over time as dynamic pricing

Old Tricks, New Dogs: Ethology and Interactive (2002)

Bruce Mitchell Blumberg, Pattie Maes, Bruce M. Blumberg

This thesis seeks to address the problem of building things with behavior and character. By things we mean autonomous animated creatures or intelligent physical devices. By behavior we mean that they...

How To Do the Right Thing (2002)

How To Do the Right Thing (2002)

This paper presents a novel approach to the problem of action selection for an autonomous agent. An agent is viewed as a collection of com- petence modules. Action selection is modeled as an emergent...

Personalized Location-based Brokering Using an Agent-Based Intermediary Architecture (2002)

This paper presents a novel approach to the problem of action selection for an autonomous agent. An agent is viewed as a collection of com- petence modules. Action selection is modeled as an emergent...

Gaurav Tewari, Jim Youll, Pattie Maes

The Impulse research project at the MIT Media Lab, which captures our vision of the future of commerce, attempts to augment the rich sensory experience of the tangible world with the informational...

Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior: From Animals to Animats 4 (2002)

Maes, Pattie, Mataric, Maja J., Merer, Jean-Arcady, Pollack, Jordan, Wilson, Stewart W.

Collection of papers refereed and presented at the 'SAB96' Conference.

Personalized Location-based Brokering Using an Agent-Based Intermediary (2001)

Gaurav Tewari, Jim Youll, Pattie Maes

The Impulse research project at the MIT Media Lab, which captures our vision of the future of commerce, attempts to augment the rich sensory experience of the tangible world with the informational...

No Bad Dogs: Ethological Lessons for Learning in Hamsterdam* (2001)

Hive: Distributed Agents for Networking Things (2001)

We present an architecture for autonomous creatures that allows learning to be combined with action selection, based on ideas from ethology. We show how temporal-difference learning may be used...

Nelson Minar, Matthew Gray, Oliver Roup, Raffi Krikorian, Pattie Maes

Hive is a distributed agents platform, a decentralized system for building applications by networking local system resources. This paper presents the architecture of Hive, concentrating on the idea...

Modeling Adaptive Autonomous Agents (2000)

Kasbah: An Agent Marketplace for Buying and Selling Goods (2000)

One category of researchers in artificial life is concerned with modeling and building so-called adaptive autonomous agents. Autonomous agents are systems that inhabit a dynamic, unpredictable...

Anthony Chavez, Pattie Maes

While there are manyWeb services which help users #nd things to buy,we know of none which actually try to automate the process of buying and selling. Kasbah is a virtual marketplace on the Web where...

Agent-mediated Integrative Negotiation for Retail Electronic Commerce (2000)

Robert H. Guttman, Pattie Maes

Software agents help automate a variety of tasks including those involved in buying and selling products over the Internet. Although shopping agents provide convenience for consumers and yield more...

Evolving Visual Routines (2000)

Michael Patrick Johnson, Pattie Maes, Trevor Darrell

Traditional machine vision assumes that the vision system recovers a a complete, labeled description of the world [ Marr, 1982 ] . Recently, several researchers have criticized this model and...

Beyond Passive Bids and Asks: Mutual Buyer and Seller Discrimination through Integrative Negotiation in Agent Based Electronic Markets (2000)

Gaurav Tewari, Pattie Maes

We describe MARI (Multi-Attribute Resource Intermediary), a project being conducted in the Software Agents group at the MIT Media Lab, and the challenges and issues we are facing in its design and...

Impulse: Location-based Agent Assistance (2000)

Jim Youll, Joan Morris, Raffi Krikorian, Pattie Maes

In the physical world, a user experiences products and places, explores physical surroundings, and participates in location-specific activities. Software agents, trapped in their electronic world,...

Representation and Ownership of Electronic Profiles (2000)

Sybil Shearin, Pattie Maes

The trend in e-commerce toward personalized buying interactions and customized products and services has led to widespread buying and selling of consumer information. Even though various efforts are...

Agents that Buy and Sell: Transforming Commerce as we Know It (2000)

Pattie Maes, Robert H. Guttman, Ros G. Moukas

Software agents have become very popular in the last six or so years. They have been used successfully to filter information, match people with similar interests and automate repetitive behavior....

Negotiating Beyond the Bid Price (2000)

Joan Morris, Pattie Maes

This paper discusses the limitations of current on-line auction systems and presents our guidelines for more dynamic attribute-based bidding. Our prototype application for airline flight bidding...

Sardine: An Agent-facilitated Airline Ticket Bidding System (2000)

Joan Morris, Pattie Maes

This paper discusses the limitations of current on-line auction systems and presents our guidelines for more dynamic attribute-based bidding. Our prototype application for airline flight bidding...

Collaborative Reputation Mechanisms in Electronic Marketplaces (2000)

Giorgos Zacharia, Ros Moukas, Pattie Maes

The members of electronic communities are often unrelated to each other, they may have never met and have no information on each other's reputation. This kind of information is vital in Electronic...

Negotiating Beyond the Bid Price (2000)

Joan Morris, Pattie Maes

This paper discusses the limitations of current on-line auction systems and presents our guidelines for more dynamic attribute-based bidding. Our prototype application for airline flight bidding...

Cooperative vs. Competitive Multi-Agent Negotiations in Retail Electronic Commerce (2000)

Robert H. Guttman, Pattie Maes

A key lesson learned from economic and game theory research is that negotiation protocols have substantial, rippling effects on the overall nature of the system. online auctions are increasingly...

Social Information Filtering: Algorithms for Automating "Word of Mouth" (2000)

Upendra Shardan, Pattie Maes

This paper describes a technique for making personalized recommendations from any type of database to a user based on similarities between the interest profile of that user and those of other users....

Agents that Buy and Sell: Transforming Commerce as we Know It (2000)

Pattie Maes, Robert H. Guttman, Ros G. Moukas

Software agents have become very popular in the last six or so years. They have been used successfully to filter information, match people with similar interests and automate repetitive behavior....

A Learning Approach to Personalized Information Filtering (2000)

Pattie Maes, Frederic R. Morgenthaler, Beerud Dilip Sheth

A personalized information filtering system must specialize to current interests of the user and adapt as they change over time. It must also explore newer domains for potentially interesting...

Agents That Buy and Sell (2000)

Pattie Maes, Robert H. Guttman, Alexandros G. Moukas

, and performing transactions on the Web are increasing at a phenomenal pace. Shoppers and sellers alike dispatch them into the digital bazaar to autonomously represent their best interests. order...

Modeling Adaptive Autonomous Agents (1999)

Hive: Distributed Agents for Networking Things (1999)

One category of researchers in artificial life is concerned with modeling and building so-called adaptive autonomous agents. Autonomous agents are systems that inhabit a dynamic, unpredictable...

Nelson Minar, Matthew Gray, Oliver Roup, Raffi Krikorian, Pattie Maes

Hive is a distributed agents platform, a decentralized system for building applications by networking local system resources. This paper presents the architecture of Hive, concentrating on the idea...

Hive: Distributed Agents for Networking Things (1999)

Nelson Minar, Matthew Gray, Oliver Roup, Raffi Krikorian, Pattie Maes

Hive is a distributed agents platform, a decentralized system for building applications by networking local system resources. This paper presents the architecture of Hive, concentrating on the idea...

No Bad Dogs: Ethological Lessons for Learning in Hamsterdam* (1999)

No Bad Dogs: Ethological Lessons for Learning in Hamsterdam* (1999)

We present an architecture for autonomous creatures that allows learning to be combined with action selection, based on ideas from ethology. We show how temporal-difference learning may be used...

The ALIVE System: Wireless, Full-body Interaction with Autonomous Agents (1999)

We present an architecture for autonomous creatures that allows learning to be combined with action selection, based on ideas from ethology. We show how temporal-difference learning may be used...

Pattie Maes, Trevor Darrell, Bruce Blumberg, Alex Pentl

The cumbersomenatureof wired interfaces often limits the range of application of virtual environments. In this paper we discuss the design and implementation of a novel system, called ALIVE, which...

Modeling Adaptive Autonomous Agents (1999)

Kasbah: An Agent Marketplace for Buying and Selling Goods (1999)

One category of researchers in artificial life is concerned with modeling and building so-called adaptive autonomous agents. Autonomous agents are systems that inhabit a dynamic, unpredictable...

Anthony Chavez, Pattie Maes

While there are many Web services which help users find things to buy, we know of none which actually try to automate the process of buying and selling. Kasbah is a virtual marketplace on the Web...

Tutorial: Mobile Software Agents for Dynamic Routing (1999)

Kwindla Hultman Kramer, Nelson Minar, Pattie Maes

As portable digital devices of all kinds proliferate, wireless networks that allow for flexible, timely and efficient data communication become more and more important. Networks for mobile devices...

Collaborative Interface Agents (1999)

Yezdi Lashkari, Max Metral, Pattie Maes

Interface agents are semi-intelligent systems which assist users with daily computer-based tasks. Recently, various researchers have proposed a learning approach towards building such agents and some...

Modeling Adaptive Autonomous Agents (1999)

Agents that Buy and Sell: Transforming Commerce as we Know It (1999)

One category of researchers in artificial life is concerned with modeling and building so-called adaptive autonomous agents. Autonomous agents are systems that inhabit a dynamic, unpredictable...

Pattie Maes, Robert H. Guttman, Ros G. Moukas

Software agents have become very popular in the last six or so years. They have been used successfully to filter information, match people with similar interests and automate repetitive behavior....

Situational Awareness from Environmental Sounds (1998)

Situational Awareness from Environmental Sounds (1998)

Environmental sounds provide many contextual cues that enable us to recognize important aspects of our surroundings. The goal of this project is to consider techniques to allow machines to extract...

Situational Awareness from Environmental Sounds (1998)

Environmental sounds provide many contextual cues that enable us to recognize important aspects of our surroundings. The goal of this project is to consider techniques to allow machines to extract...

Situational Awareness from Environmental Sounds (1998)

Environmental sounds provide many contextual cues that enable us to recognize important aspects of our surroundings. The goal of this project is to consider techniques to allow machines to extract...

How to Do the Right Thing. (1998)

Environmental sounds provide many contextual cues that enable us to recognize important aspects of our surroundings. The goal of this project is to consider techniques to allow machines to extract...

Maes, Pattie

This paper presents a novel approach to the problem of action selection for an autonomous agent. An agent is viewed as a collection of competence modules. Action selection is modelled as an emergent...

Modeling Adaptive Autonomous Agents (1998)

Footprints: History-Rich Tools for Information Foraging (1998)

One category of researchers in artificial life is concerned with modeling and building so-called adaptive autonomous agents. Autonomous agents are systems that inhabit a dynamic, unpredictable...

Alan Wexelblat, Pattie Maes

Inspired by Hill and Hollan's original work [6], we have been developing a theory of interaction history and building tools to apply this theory to navigation in a complex information space. We have...

Designing An Ecology Of Distributed Agents (1998)

Pattie Maes, Stephen A. Benton, Nelson Minar

The Internet is a rich environment for computation. There is a need for design principles to organize distributed computational activity on the Internet, something analogous to the way the World Wide...

Unknown (1998)

Nelson Minar, Pattie Maes, Stephen A. Benton

The Internet is a rich environment for computation. There is a need for design principles to organize distributed computational activity on the Internet, something analogous to the way the World Wide...

Learning to Coordinate Behaviors (1998)

Pattie Maes, Rodney A. Brooks

We describe an algorithm which allows a behavior-based robot to learn on the basis of positive and negative feedback when to activate its behaviors. In accordance with the philosophy of...

Cooperating Mobile Agents for Mapping Networks (1998)

Nelson Minar, Kwindla Hultman Kramer, Pattie Maes

. Contemporary computer networks are heterogeneous; even a single network consists of many kinds of processors and communications channels. But few programming tools embrace, or even acknowledge,...

Cooperating Mobile Agents for Mapping Networks (1998)

Nelson Minar, Kwindla Hultman Kramer, Pattie Maes

Contemporary computer networks are heterogeneous; even a single network consists of many kinds of processors and communications channels. But few programming tools embrace, or even acknowledge, this...

A Real-Life Experiment in Creating an Agent Marketplace (1998)

Anthony Chavez, Daniel Dreilinger, Robert Guttman, Pattie Maes

Software agents help people with time consuming activities. One increasingly popular application for software agents is electronic commerce, namely having agents buy and sell goods and services on...

Kasbah: An Agent Marketplace for Buying and Selling Goods (1998)

Anthony Chavez, Pattie Maes

While there are many Web services which help users find things to buy, we know of none which actually try to automate the process of buying and selling. Kasbah is a virtual marketplace on the Web...

Amalthaea: An Evolving Multi-Agent Information Filtering and Discovery System for the WWW (1998)

Alexandros Moukas, Pattie Maes

Amalthaea is an evolving, multiagent ecosystem for personalized filtering, discovery and monitoring of information sites. Amalthaea's primary application domain is the WorldWide -Web and its main...

Agents as Mediators in Electronic Commerce (1998)

Pattie Maes, Alexandros G. Moukas, Robert H. Guttman

Software agents help automate a variety of tasks including those involved in buying and selling products over the Internet. This paper surveys several of these agent-mediated electronic commerce...

Amalthaea: Information Filtering and Discovery Using A Multiagent Evolving System (1997)

Pattie Maes, Stephen A. Benton, Alexandros G. Moukas

Agents are semi-intelligent programs that assist the user in performing repetitive and time-consuming tasks. Information discovery and information filtering are suitable domains for applying agent...

The potential of Electronic Commerce in reengineering consumer-retailer relationships through Intelligent Agents (1997)

Ioannis S. Terpsidis, Alexandros Moukas, Bill Pergioudakis, Georgios Doukidis, Pattie Maes

As the need for more efficient business practices arises in the area of business to consumer relationships, enterprises strangle to explore new channels so as to provide services that will offer the...

The potential of Electronic Commerce in reengineering consumer-retailer relationships through Intelligent Agents (1997)

Ioannis S. Terpsidis, Alexandros Moukas, Bill Pergioudakis, Georgios Doukidis, Pattie Maes

As the need for more efficient business practices arises in the area of business to consumer relationships, enterprises strangle to explore new channels so as to provide services that will offer the...

The potential of Electronic Commerce in reengineering consumer-retailer relationships through Intelligent Agents (1997)

Ioannis S. Terpsidis, Alexandros Moukas, Bill Pergioudakis, Georgios Doukidis, Pattie Maes

As the need for more efficient business practices arises in the area of business to consumer relationships, enterprises strangle to explore new channels so as to provide services that will offer the...

The potential of Electronic Commerce in reengineering consumer-retailer relationships through Intelligent Agents (1997)

Ioannis S. Terpsidis, Alexandros Moukas, Bill Pergioudakis, Georgios Doukidis, Pattie Maes

As the need for more efficient business practices arises in the area of business to consumer relationships, enterprises strangle to explore new channels so as to provide services that will offer the...

Issues for Software Agent UI (1997)

Alan Wexelblat, Pattie Maes

Agent user interfaces pose a number of special challenges for interface designers. These challenges can be formulated as a series of issues which must be addressed: understanding, trust, control,...

Collaborative Interface Agents (1997)

Yezdi Lashkari, Max Metral, Pattie Maes

Interface agents are semi-intelligent systems which assist users with daily computer-based tasks. Recently, various researchers have proposed a learning approach towards building such agents and some...

Modeling Adaptive Autonomous Agents (1997)

Footprints: History-Rich Web Browsing (1997)

One category of researchers in artificial life is concerned with modeling and building so-called adaptive autonomous agents. Autonomous agents are systems that inhabit a dynamic, unpredictable...

Alan Wexelblat, Pattie Maes

This paper describes the Footprints prototype system and some of the issues in implementing tools for this kind of problem

Paying Attention to What's Important: Using Focus of Attention to Improve Unsupervised Learning (1996)

Leonard N. Foner, Pattie Maes

Adaptive autonomous agents have to learn about the effects of their actions so as to be able to improve their performance and adapt to long term changes. The problem of correlating actions with...

No Bad Dogs: Ethological Lessons for Learning in Hamsterdam (1996)

Collaborative Interface Agents (1996)

We present an architecture for autonomous creatures that allows learning to be combined with action selection, based on ideas from ethology. We show how temporal-difference learning may be used...

Yezdi Lashkari, Max Metral, Pattie Maes

Interface agents are semi-intelligent systems which assist users with daily computer-based tasks. Recently, various researchers have proposed a learning approach towards building such agents and some...

Agents with Faces: The Effects of Personification of Agents (1996)

Tomoko Koda Pattie Maes, Tomoko Koda, Pattie Maes

this paper argues that employing a face as the representation of an agent is engaging, makes a user pay more attention, and takes more effort for a user to interact with the system. It is possible to...

Agents with Faces: The Effects of Personification of Agents (1996)

Tomoko Koda Pattie Maes, Tomoko Koda, Pattie Maes

this paper argues that employing a face as the representation of an agent is engaging, makes a user pay more attention, and takes more effort for a user to interact with the system. It is possible to...

Evolutionary Speciation for Problem Decomposition (1996)

Justinian Rosca, Michael Patrick, Pattie Maes

Modular problem decomposition is often employed to cope with complex real-world problems. An intelligent decomposition can efficiently lead to compact and general solutions but is, in most cases, the...

Evolutionary Speciation for Problem Decomposition (1996)

Justinian Rosca, Michael Patrick, Pattie Maes

Modular problem decomposition is often employed to cope with complex real-world problems. An intelligent decomposition can efficiently lead to compact and general solutions but is, in most cases, the...

Modeling Adaptive Autonomous Agents (1996)

How To Do The Right Thing (1996)

One category of researchers in artificial life is concerned with modeling and building so-called adaptive autonomous agents. Autonomous agents are systems that inhabit a dynamic, unpredictable...