Publication - Integrating High-Level and Detailed Agent Coordination into a Layered Architecture

Authors: XiaoQin Zhang, Anita Raja, Barbara Lerner
Title: Integrating High-Level and Detailed Agent Coordination into a Layered Architecture
Abstract: Abstract. Multi-agent coordination is an important and complicated process. This paper proposes a layered approach to coordination in which low-level domain independent coordination and scheduling modules deal with detailed temporal and resource constraints and high-level controllers focus on domain issues and domain state. A general agent architecture is described based on this agent control model. The integration of the lowlevel controllers with high-level JIL process programming language is used to explore the model. The possibility of integrating with other frameworks such as domain planners and BDI-based controllers is also explored.
Keywords: Coordination, Framework, GPGP, GPGP2, Multi-Agent Systems
Publication: The workshop on Infrastructure for Scalable Multi-Agent Systems, Agents 2000. Also available as UMass Computer Science Technical Report 1999-029.
Date: June 2000
Sources: PS: http://mas.cs.umass.edu/~xqzhang/pub/ATAL-99-JIL.ps
PDF: /Documents/ATAL-99-JIL.pdf
Reference: XiaoQin Zhang, Anita Raja, Barbara Lerner. Integrating High-Level and Detailed Agent Coordination into a Layered Architecture. The workshop on Infrastructure for Scalable Multi-Agent Systems, Agents 2000. Also available as UMass Computer Science Technical Report 1999-029.. June 2000.
bibtex: 
@article{zhang-137,
  author    = "Anita Raja XiaoQin Zhang and Barbara Lerner",
  title     = "{Integrating High-Level and Detailed Agent
               Coordination into a Layered Architecture}",
  journal   = "The workshop on Infrastructure for Scalable
               Multi-Agent Systems, Agents 2000. Also available
               as UMass Computer Science Technical Report
               1999-029.",
  month     = "June",
  year      = "2000",
  url       = "http://mas.cs.umass.edu/paper/137",
}