Abstract

This paper describes the O-Plan2 agent oriented architecture and describes the communication which takes place between planning and execution monitoring agents built upon the architecture. Separate modules of such a system are identified along with internal and external interface specifications that form a part of the design. Time constraints, resource usage, object selection and condition/effect causal constraints are handled as an integral part of the overall system structure by treating specialised constraint management as supporting the core decision making components in the architecture. A close coupling of planning and time or resource scheduling is therefore possible within a system employing an activity based plan representation. 2 History and Technical Influences

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