Abstract
Agents for real applications often operate in complex, dynamic, and nondeterministic environments and thus need to function in worlds with exogenous events, other agents, and uncertain effects. In this paper, we present our reactive agent view to describe agents for real-world applications and introduce our two agent architectures: UM-PRS and Jam. UM-PRS has been applied to both physical robots and software agents and demonstrated its sufficiently powerful representation and control scheme as a general reactive agent architecture. The Jam agent architecture has evolved from UM-PRS and implemented in Java for maximum portability and mobility. We first identify agent tasks and environments and then highlight the relevant features in our agent architectures.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Birmingham, W. P., E. H. Durfee, T. Mullen, and M. P. Wellman (1995, March). The distributed agent architecture of the university of michigan digital library (extended abstract). In AAAI Spring Symposium Series on Information Gathering from Distributed, Heterogeneous Environments.
Durfee, E. H., M. Huber, M. Kurnow, and J. Lee (1997, February). TAIPE: Tactical assistants for interaction planning and execution. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents’ 97), Marina del Rey, California, pp. 443–450.
Fikes, R. E. and N. J. Nilsson (1971). STRIPS: A new approach to the application of theorem proving to problem solving. Artificial Intelligence 2, 189–208.
Georgeff, M. P. and F. F. Ingrand (1989). Decision-making in an embedded reasoning system. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Detroit, Michigan, pp. 972–978.
Huhns, M. N. and M. P. Singh (Eds.) (1997). Readings in Agents, Chapter 1, pp. 1–23. Morgan Kaufmann.
Kenny, P. G., C. R. Bidlack, K. C. Kluge, J. Lee, M. J. Huber, E. H. Durfee, and T. Weymouth (1994, May). Implementation of a reactive autonomous navigation system on an outdoor mobile robot. In Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems Annual National Symposium (AUVS-94), Detroit, MI, pp. 233–239. Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems.
Lee, J. (1995, March). On the design of structured circuit semantics. In AAAI Spring Symposium on Lessons Learned from Implemented Software Architectures for Physical Agents, pp. 127–134.
Lee, J. (1997, January). An Explicit Semantics for Coordinated Multiagent Plan Execution. Ph. D. thesis, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Lee, J., M. J. Huber, E. H. Durfee, and P. G. Kenny (1994, March). UM-PRS: an implementation of the procedural reasoning system for multirobot applications. In Conference on Intelligent Robotics in Field, Factory, Service, and Space (CIRFFSS’ 94), Houston, Texas, pp. 842–849.
McDermott, D. (1991, June). A reactive plan language. Technical Note YALEU/CSD/RR #864, Department of Computer Science, Yale University.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1999 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Lee, J. (1999). Desiderata in Agent Architectures for Coordinating Multi-Agent Systems. In: Ishida, T. (eds) Multiagent Platforms. PRIMA 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1599. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48826-X_4
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48826-X_4
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-65967-9
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-48826-2
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive