Reflections on the Nature of Multi-Agent Coordination and Its Implications for an Agent Architecture (1998)
| Venue: | Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems |
| Citations: | 59 - 10 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Lesser98reflectionson,
author = {Victor R. Lesser},
title = {Reflections on the Nature of Multi-Agent Coordination and Its Implications for an Agent Architecture},
booktitle = {Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems},
year = {1998},
pages = {89--111},
publisher = {Kluwer Academic Publishers}
}
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Abstract
The development of enabling infrastructure for the next generation of multi-agent systems consisting of large numbers of agents and operating in open environments is one of the key challenges for the multi-agent community. Current infrastructure support does not materially assist in the development of sophisticated agent coordination strategies. It is the need for and the development of such a high-level support structure that will be the focus of this paper. A domain-independent (generic) agent architecture is proposed that wraps around an agent’s problem-solving component in order to make problem-solving responsive to real-time constraints, available network resources and the need to coordinate — both in the large and small, with problem-solving activities of other agents. This architecture contains five components, local agent scheduling, multi-agent coordination, organizational design, detection and diagnosis and on-line learning, that are designed to interact so that a range of different situation-specific coordination strategies can be implemented and adapted as the situation evolves. The presentation of this architecture is followed by a more detailed discussion on the interaction among these components and the
