COORDINATION IN OPEN AND UNSTRUCTURED INTELLIGENT AGENT SOCIETIES - Using Distributed Planners on Top of a Semantic Overlay Network

António Luís Lopes, Luís Miguel Botelho

2010

Abstract

Collaborative environments, where multiple heterogeneous agents (managing several resources) can cooperate in pursuing common and individual goals, are a step forward in creating real-world agent societies. However, current research in agent negotiation and in service coordination is still not enough for building such an agent-based society, capable of jointly solving complex planning problems and still achieve overall good performance. Most often, current work relies on either some centralised component or pre-defined social structure, which can compromise the system in terms of scalability, openness and robustness, and fails to address general problems. By using efficient network search algorithms and network evolution techniques it is possible to build and maintain a semantic overlay network from a totally unstructured distributed network, which in turn will simplify and optimize the distributed planning process amongst heterogeneous agents. We developed distributed versions of well-known planners that operate on top of the referred semantic overlay network and through a set of tests (using different scenarios) we were able to determine which is the best algorithm.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Luís Lopes A. and Miguel Botelho L. (2010). COORDINATION IN OPEN AND UNSTRUCTURED INTELLIGENT AGENT SOCIETIES - Using Distributed Planners on Top of a Semantic Overlay Network . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-674-022-1, pages 347-350. DOI: 10.5220/0002761403470350

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart10,
author={António Luís Lopes and Luís Miguel Botelho},
title={COORDINATION IN OPEN AND UNSTRUCTURED INTELLIGENT AGENT SOCIETIES - Using Distributed Planners on Top of a Semantic Overlay Network},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,},
year={2010},
pages={347-350},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002761403470350},
isbn={978-989-674-022-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,
TI - COORDINATION IN OPEN AND UNSTRUCTURED INTELLIGENT AGENT SOCIETIES - Using Distributed Planners on Top of a Semantic Overlay Network
SN - 978-989-674-022-1
AU - Luís Lopes A.
AU - Miguel Botelho L.
PY - 2010
SP - 347
EP - 350
DO - 10.5220/0002761403470350