Ebook: Coordinating Plans of Autonomous Agents

This book deals with an important topic in distributed AI: the coordination of autonomous agents' activities. It provides a framework for modelling agents with planning and communicative competence. Important issues in the book are: - How to recognize and reconcile conflicting intentions among a collection of agents. - How to recognize and take advantage of favorable interactions. - How to enable individual agents to represent and reason about the actions, plans, and knowledge of other agents in order to coordinate with them. - When to call a set of plans coordinated and what operations are possible to transform uncoordinated plans into coordinated ones. - How to enable agents to communicate and interact: what communication languages or protocols to use, and what and when to communicate. The book is clearly written with many examples and background material.

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This book deals with an important topic in distributed AI: the coordination of autonomous agents' activities. It provides a framework for modelling agents with planning and communicative competence. Important issues in the book are: - How to recognize and reconcile conflicting intentions among a collection of agents. - How to recognize and take advantage of favorable interactions. - How to enable individual agents to represent and reason about the actions, plans, and knowledge of other agents in order to coordinate with them. - When to call a set of plans coordinated and what operations are possible to transform uncoordinated plans into coordinated ones. - How to enable agents to communicate and interact: what communication languages or protocols to use, and what and when to communicate. The book is clearly written with many examples and background material.

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This book deals with an important topic in distributed AI: the coordination of autonomous agents' activities. It provides a framework for modelling agents with planning and communicative competence. Important issues in the book are: - How to recognize and reconcile conflicting intentions among a collection of agents. - How to recognize and take advantage of favorable interactions. - How to enable individual agents to represent and reason about the actions, plans, and knowledge of other agents in order to coordinate with them. - When to call a set of plans coordinated and what operations are possible to transform uncoordinated plans into coordinated ones. - How to enable agents to communicate and interact: what communication languages or protocols to use, and what and when to communicate. The book is clearly written with many examples and background material.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Cooperation and cordination of intelligent agents....Pages 15-57
Actions and plans in multiagent domains....Pages 59-81
Multiagent plan relations....Pages 83-103
Handling plan relations....Pages 105-145
Negotiation for plan coordination....Pages 147-166
A synthesized model of distributed planning by autonomous cooperating agents....Pages 167-183
Plan coordination for office automation and computer-supported cooperative work....Pages 185-213
Conclusions....Pages 215-220
Back Matter....Pages -

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This book deals with an important topic in distributed AI: the coordination of autonomous agents' activities. It provides a framework for modelling agents with planning and communicative competence. Important issues in the book are: - How to recognize and reconcile conflicting intentions among a collection of agents. - How to recognize and take advantage of favorable interactions. - How to enable individual agents to represent and reason about the actions, plans, and knowledge of other agents in order to coordinate with them. - When to call a set of plans coordinated and what operations are possible to transform uncoordinated plans into coordinated ones. - How to enable agents to communicate and interact: what communication languages or protocols to use, and what and when to communicate. The book is clearly written with many examples and background material.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Cooperation and cordination of intelligent agents....Pages 15-57
Actions and plans in multiagent domains....Pages 59-81
Multiagent plan relations....Pages 83-103
Handling plan relations....Pages 105-145
Negotiation for plan coordination....Pages 147-166
A synthesized model of distributed planning by autonomous cooperating agents....Pages 167-183
Plan coordination for office automation and computer-supported cooperative work....Pages 185-213
Conclusions....Pages 215-220
Back Matter....Pages -
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