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Objective Coordination in Multi-Agent System Engineering: Design and Implementation

By Michael Schumacher (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2001
ISBN
9780521277037, 0521277035
DOI
10.1007/3-540-44933-7
LCC
QC173.6 .S38 1985
Open Library ID
OL18130001M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1113645 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2039 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Edition
1
Pages
154\137
Topic
Technique
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04
Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer

Description

Based on a suitably defined coordination model distinguishing between objective (inter-agent) coordination and subjective (intra-agent) coordination, this book addresses the engineering of multi-agent systems and thus contributes to closing the gap between research and applications in agent technology. After reviewing the state of the art, the author introduces the general coordination model ECM and the corresponding object-oriented coordination language STL++. The practicability of ECM/STL++ is illustrated by the simulation of a particular collective robotics application and the automation of an e-commerce trading system. Situated at the intersection of behavior-based artificial intelligence and concurrent and distributed systems, this monograph is of relevance to the agent R&D community approaching agent technology from the distributed artificial intelligence point of view as well as for the distributed systems community.

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