Negotiation and conflict resolution within a community of cooperative agents

Author

Oliveira, Eugénia ; Mouta, Fernando ; Rocha, Ana Paula

Author_Institution

Fac. de Engenharia, Porto Univ., Portugal

fYear

1993

fDate

1993

Firstpage

421

Lastpage

427

Abstract

UPShell, a tool for building up coarse grain semiautonomous cooperating agents (which are expert systems) is presented. Negotiation and conflict resolution protocols have been integrated into the agents, whose architecture is also presented. Several basic functionalities dealing with task scheduling as well as cooperation policies are briefly specified. A realistic scenario, involving a sophisticated electricity distribution network management application, is presented to illustrate the concepts and tool features

Keywords

cooperative systems; distribution networks; expert systems; load management; power system computer control; UPShell; coarse grain semiautonomous cooperating agents; conflict resolution; cooperative agents; electricity distribution network management; expert systems; negotiation; task scheduling; Communication system control; Cooperative systems; Energy management; Expert systems; Intelligent agent; Intelligent systems; Job shop scheduling; Knowledge based systems; Multiagent systems; Protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Autonomous Decentralized Systems, 1993. Proceedings. ISADS 93., International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kawasaki

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3125-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISADS.1993.262674

Filename

262674