Autonomous Agents Coordination: Action Languages meet CLP(FD) and Linda
Agostino Dovier (Univ. Udine)
Andrea Formisano (Univ. Perugia)
Enrico Pontelli (New Mexico State Univ.)
Abstract
The paper presents a knowledge representation formalism, in the form of a high-level Action Description Language for multi-agent systems, where autonomous agents reason and act in a shared environment. Agents are autonomously pursuing individual goals, but are capable of interacting through a shared knowledge repository. In their interactions through shared portions of the world, the agents deal with problems of synchronization and concurrency; the action language allows the description of strategies to ensure a consistent global execution of the agents’ autonomously derived plans. A distributed planning problem is formalized by providing the declarative specifications of the portion of the problem pertaining a single agent. Each of these specifications is executable by a stand-alone CLP-based planner. The coordination among agents exploits a Linda infrastructure. The proposal is validated in a prototype implementation developed in SICStus Prolog.
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@article{KEYWORD,
journal = {Theory and Practice of Logic Programming},
publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
author = {Agostino Dovier and Andrea Formisano and Enrico Pontelli},
title = {{Autonomous agents coordination: Action languages meet CLP(FD) and Linda}},
volume = {13},
number = {2},
year = {2013},
pages = {149-173}
}