Objective Coordination in Multi-Agent System Engineering Design
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 betwee
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science Edited by G. Goos, J. Hartmanis and J. van Leeuwen
2039
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Berlin Heidelberg New York Barcelona Hong Kong London Milan Paris Singapore Tokyo
Michael Schumacher
Objective Coordination in Multi-Agent System Engineering Design and Implementation
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA J¨org Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saabr¨ucken, Germany Author Michael Schumacher Berninastrasse 85, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland E-mail: [email protected] Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme Schumacher, Michael: Objective coordination in multi-agent system engineering : design and implementation / Michael Schumacher. - Berlin ; Heidelberg ; New York ; Barcelona ; Hong Kong ; London ; Milan ; Paris ; Singapore ; Tokyo : Springer, 2001 (Lecture notes in computer science ; Vol. 2039 : Lecture notes in artificial intelligence) ISBN 3-540-41982-9
CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.11, C.2.4, D.1.3, D.2.12, I.2.9 ISBN 3-540-41982-9 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York a member of BertelsmannSpringer Science+Business Media GmbH http://www.springer.de © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Christian Grosche, Hamburg Printed on acid-free paper SPIN: 10782507 06/3142 543210
Foreword
This book addresses the engineering of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) based on suitably-defined coordination models and languages. Its contribution is twofold: on the one hand, the theoretical part defines a new coordination model (ECM) for designing MAS and proposes two corresponding coordination languages (STL++ and Agent&Co) for implementing designed systems in distributed environments; on the other hand, the experimental part presents a software prototype by starting off the existing Pt-pvm (a distributed threads environment developed by Oliver Krone, a former PhD student of our PAI research group) and validates the theoretical part with two case studies. Definitely one of the main result is that the ECM model and its explicit distinction of objective and subjective coordination define an original and comprehensive framework for modeling, designing, and implementing interactions in complex MAS. This work has been carried out within the framework of the Parallelism and Artificial Intelligence research group (PAI) at the University
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