Unifying agent systems

Luck, Michael and d'Inverno, Mark. 2003. Unifying agent systems. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 37(1-2), pp. 131-167. ISSN 1012-2443 [Article]

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Whilst there has been an explosion of interest in multi-agent systems, there are still many problems that may have a potentially deleterious impact on the progress of the area. These prob- lems have arisen primarily through the lack of a common structure and language for understanding multi-agent systems, and with which to organise and pursue research in this area. In response to this, previous work has been concerned with developing a computational formal framework for agency and autonomy which, we argue, provides an environment in which to develop, evaluate, and compare systems and theories of multi-agent systems. In this paper we go some way towards justifying these claims by reviewing the framework and showing what we can achieve within it by developing models of agent dimensions, categorising key inter-agent relationships and by ap- plying it to evaluate existing multi-agent systems in a coherent computational model. We outline the benefits of specifying each of the systems within the framework and consider how it allows us to unify different systems and approaches in general.

Item Type:

Article

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020273205131

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Computing

Dates:

DateEvent
2003Published

Item ID:

8794

Date Deposited:

19 Sep 2013 14:47

Last Modified:

29 Apr 2020 15:57

Peer Reviewed:

Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/8794

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