Document Type
Article
Subject Area(s)
Computer Science and Engineering
Abstract
This paper explores the specification and semantics of multiagent problem-solving systems, focusing on the representations that agents have of each other. It provides a declarative representation for such systems. Several procedural solutions to a well-known test-bed problem are considered, and the requirements they impose on different agents are identified. A study of these requirements yields a representational scheme based on temporal logic for specifying the acting, perceiving, communicating, and reasoning abilities of computational agents. A formal semantics is provided for this scheme. The resulting representation is highly declarative, and useful for describing systems of agents solving problems reactively.
Publication Info
Published in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Volume 5, Issue 5, 1993, pages 721-739.
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© 1993 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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