Towards an Architecture and Theory for Agent Coordination

智能体协调的架构和理论

基本信息

批准号：
9523419
负责人：
Victor Lesser
金额：
$ 41.52万
依托单位：
University of Massachusetts Amherst
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
1995
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
1995-09-15 至 1999-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9523419&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Towards Architecture Theory Agent Coordination

项目摘要

This research involves the development of a domain independent approach to real-time, distributed coordination of multiple agents. It is based on the GeneralizedPartial Global Planning (GPGP) approach which views coordination as modulating local control, not replacing it. This process occurs via a set of domain-independent coordination mechanisms associated with each agent that posts constraints to the local real-time scheduler about the importance of certain tasks and appropriate times for their initiation and completion. Each coordination mechanism is defined as a response to certain features in the current task environment. In order to construct a generic approach to coordination, it is necessary to have an underlying framework that can represent the wide diversity of tasks, task properties, and task relationships in order to arrive at effective coordination among the activities of different agents in a wide variety of domains. The framework is called TAEMS (Task Analysis, Environment Modeling, and Simulation). It is a framework with which to represent the important aspects of complex computational task environments that is compatible with both formal agent-centered approaches and experimental approaches. The result of this research will lead to the development of a generic coordination module which can help desiginers of multiagent systems to build coordination strategies.

这项研究涉及开发一种独立于领域的方法来实现多个代理的实时、分布式协调。它基于广义部分全局规划（GPGP）方法，该方法将协调视为调节本地控制，而不是取代它。该过程通过一组与每个代理关联的独立于域的协调机制来发生，该机制向本地实时调度程序发布有关某些任务的重要性以及启动和完成这些任务的适当时间的约束。每个协调机制被定义为对当前任务环境中某些特征的响应。为了构建通用的协调方法，需要有一个底层框架来表示任务、任务属性和任务关系的广泛多样性，以便在各种情况下实现不同智能体的活动之间的有效协调的域。该框架称为 TAEMS（任务分析、环境建模和仿真）。它是一个框架，用于表示复杂计算任务环境的重要方面，与正式的以代理为中心的方法和实验方法兼容。这项研究的结果将导致通用协调模块的开发，该模块可以帮助多智能体系统的设计者建立协调策略。