MultiAgent planning: A resource based approach

Abstract

Interaction among agents is the distinguish property of MultiAgent Systems (MAS). In order to take advantage of such interaction w.r.t goals (both local for each agent and common for a group of agents) distributed planning, (i.e. the generation of coordination and cooperation of activities) is fundamental. Distributed MAS planning can be uniformly modeled in terms of resources: formal plan representation and effective interacting methods. Respectively, plan representation can be expressed by means of logical proofs and interacting methods by means of asynchronous communication. This paper presents preliminary con- siderations for the definition of a model for distributed MAS planning based on resources. For this mean, HACL (Higher Order Asynchronous Communications in Linear Logic) is used for analysis on the structural model RPN (Recursive Petri Nets) for MultiAgent distributed planning and for specification of MAS interaction protocols. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2000.