Publication - Incorporating Uncertainty in Agent Commitments

Authors: Xuan, Ping, Lesser, Victor
Title: Incorporating Uncertainty in Agent Commitments
Abstract: Commitments play a central role in multi-agent coordination. However, they are inherently uncertain and it is important to take these uncertainties into account during planning and scheduling. This paper addresses the problem of handling the uncertainty in commitments.We propose a new model of commitment that incorporates the uncertainty, the use of contingency analysis to reduce the uncertainty, and a negotiation framework for handling commitments with uncertainty.
Keywords: Contingency, Coordination, Planning, Uncertainty
Publication: Intelligent Agents VI --- Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL-99), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 57 - 70
Publisher: N. R. Jennings and Y. Lesperance (eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin
Date: January 1999
Sources: PDF: /Documents/xuan00incorporating.pdf
Reference: Xuan, Ping, Lesser, Victor. Incorporating Uncertainty in Agent Commitments. Intelligent Agents VI --- Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL-99), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, N. R. Jennings and Y. Lesperance (eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 57-70. January 1999.
bibtex: 
@article{Xuan-178,
  author    = "Ping Xuan and Victor Lesser",
  title     = "{Incorporating Uncertainty in Agent Commitments}",
  journal   = "Intelligent Agents VI --- Proceedings of the Sixth
               International Workshop on Agent Theories,
               Architectures, and Languages (ATAL-99), Lecture
               Notes in Artificial Intelligence",
  publisher = "N. R. Jennings and Y. Lesperance (eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin",
  pages     = "57-70",
  month     = "January",
  year      = "1999",
  url       = "http://mas.cs.umass.edu/paper/178",
}