Title :
Allocating goals and planning responsibility in dynamic sensible agent organizations
Author :
Barber, K.S. ; McKay, R.M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Texas Univ., Austin, TX, USA
Abstract :
A multi-agent system (MAS) can be viewed as a group of entities interacting to achieve individual or collective goals. Communication is a central issue in this interaction between agents. This paper uses the COOL language to define an extended version of the contract net protocol to address issues in one particular MAS-sensible agents. The proposed implementation of our protocol and its use in the sensible agent testbed is also discussed.
Keywords :
multi-agent systems; planning (artificial intelligence); protocols; COOL language; MAS; communication; contract net protocol; dynamic sensible agent organizations; goal allocation; multi-agent system; protocol; responsibility planning; Autonomous agents; Character generation; Contracts; Intelligent systems; Laboratories; Protocols; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1998. 1998 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4778-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.1998.725445