This book deals with an important topic in distributed AI: the coordination of autonomous agents' activities. It provides a framework for modelling agents with planning and communicative competence. Important issues in the book are: - How to recognize and reconcile conflicting intentions among a collection of agents. - How to recognize and take advantage of favorable interactions. - How to enable individual agents to represent and reason about the actions, plans, and knowledge of other agents in order to coordinate with them. - When to call a set of plans coordinated and what operations are possible to transform uncoordinated plans into coordinated ones. - How to enable agents to communicate and interact: what communication languages or protocols to use, and what and when to communicate. The book is clearly written with many examples and background material.

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Book Title: Coordinating Plans of Autonomous Agents
Authors: Frank Martial
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0016366
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1992
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-55615-2Published: 24 June 1992
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-47261-2Published: 23 November 2005
Series ISSN: 0302-9743
Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 251
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Models and Principles, Organization, IT in Business

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