Cooperation in a multi-agent community

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 1993

Authors

Eugénio Oliveira (Author) FEUP; Fernando Mouta (Author) Other; Ana Paula Rocha (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems and Natural Language

13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems and Natural Language

Avignon, France

Other information

Abstract (EN): This paper describes a framework for cooperation suitable for being exploited in a society of cooperative distributed agents. We briefly present a tool UPShell - University of Porto Shell, which may be used to generate specific Intelligent Systems, although its main purpose is to build up a community of coarse-grain, semi-autonomous agents out either of those generated Intelligent Systems or of already pre-existent Knowledge Based Systems. After selecting the agents and the machines where each agent is going to run, UPShell sets up an architecture enabling agents to communicate and cooperate. Inside each agent, a blackboard-based architecture supports a flexible control and natural integration of different modules responsible for internal activity (problem solving) as well as external activity (cooperation and communication).

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 12