Developing formal specifications to coordinate heterogeneous autonomous agents

Munindar P. Singh
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We have been developing an approach for the distributed coordination of heterogeneous, autonomous agents. This approach takes as input (a) agent skeletons, giving compact descriptions of the given agents in terms of their events that are significant for coordination, as well as (b) relationships among the events occurring in these skeletons. A natural question is how may the skeletons and relationships be produced in the first place. Parunak (1996) proposed a methodology for designing multiagent systems based on Dooley graphs (1976) from discourse analysis. We show how with a few key modifications, Dooley graphs can also be used to generate the skeletons and relationships required for coordination. This combines the benefits of an intuitive methodology with a formal and distributed framework for developing multiagent systems from autonomous agents.
开发正式的规范来协调异构自治代理
我们一直在开发一种方法,用于异构自治代理的分布式协调。这种方法将(a)代理框架作为输入,根据对协调有重要意义的事件给出给定代理的紧凑描述,以及(b)这些框架中发生的事件之间的关系。一个自然的问题是,这些骨架和关系最初是如何产生的。Parunak(1996)提出了一种基于话语分析的Dooley图(1976)设计多智能体系统的方法。我们展示了如何通过一些关键的修改,Dooley图也可以用来生成协调所需的框架和关系。这结合了直观方法的优点和用于从自治代理开发多代理系统的正式和分布式框架。
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