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Controlling cooperative problem solving in industrial multi-agent systems using joint intentions.

One reason why Distributed AI (DAI) technology has been deployed in relatively few real-size applications is that it lacks a clear and implementable model of cooperative problem solving which specifies how agents should operate and interact in complex, dynamic and unpredictable environments. As a consequence of the experience gained whilst building a number of DAI systems for industrial applications, a new principled model of cooperation has been developed. This model, called Joint Responsibility, has the notion of joint intentions at its core. It specifies pre-conditions which must be attained before collaboration can commence and prescribes how individuals should behave both when joint activity is progressing satisfactorily and also when it runs into difficulty. The theoretical model has been used to guide the implementation of a general-purpose cooperation framework and the qualitative and quantitative benefits of this implementation have been assessed through a series of comparative experiments in the real-world domain of electricity transportation management. Finally, the success of the approach of building a system with an explicit and grounded representation of cooperative problem solving is used to outline a proposal for the next generation of multi-agent systems.

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Problem-Solving in Multi-Agent Systems: A Novel Generalized Particle Model

East China University of Sci. and Tech., China

Huazhong University of Sci. and Tech., China

Qingdao Technological University, China

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This paper presents a novel generalized particle model (GPM) for problem-solving in multi-agent systems (MAS).1 The construction, dynamics and properties of the GPA and corresponding algorithm are discussed. The GPA has many advantages in terms of the high-scale parallelism, multi-objective optimization, multi-type coordination, multi-degree autonomy, and the ability to deal randomly occurring phenomena in MAS systems.

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