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Transactional Multiple Agents

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In a Multi-agent system (MAS), agents work to achieve common goals. This paper gives a flexible model for writing agents and a mechanism to guarantee correctness of the MAS when agents operate on multiple databases.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Xinfeng Ye

  2. UMIST, Department of Computation, Manchester, UK

    John Keane

  3. Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China

    Guoqing Zhang

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, UMIST, Manchester, M60 1QD, UK

    Hujun Yin , Nigel Allinson  & Richard Freeman ,  & 

  2. Department of Computation, UMIST, Manchester, M60 1QD, UK

    John Keane

  3. Department of Biomolecular Science, UMIST, Manchester, M60 1QD, UK

    Simon Hubbard

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Ye, X., Keane, J., Zhang, G. (2002). Transactional Multiple Agents. In: Yin, H., Allinson, N., Freeman, R., Keane, J., Hubbard, S. (eds) Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning — IDEAL 2002. IDEAL 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2412. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45675-9_39

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