Publication - Evolution of the GPGP/TAEMS Domain-Independent Coordination Framework

Authors: Lesser, V.; Decker, K.; Wagner, T.; Carver, N.; Garvey, A.; Horling, B.; Neiman, D.; Podorozhny, R.; NagendraPrasad, M.; Raja, A.; Vincent, R.; Xuan, P.; Zhang, X.Q
Title: Evolution of the GPGP/TAEMS Domain-Independent Coordination Framework
Abstract: The GPGP/TÆMS domain-independent coordination framework for small agent groups was first described almost ten years ago and then more fully detailed in an ICMAS95 paper. In this paper, we discuss the evolution of this framework over the last six years motivated by its use in a number of applications, including: information gathering and management, intelligent home automation, coordination of concurrent engineering activities, distributed situation assessment, and hospital scheduling. First, we review the basic architecture of GPGP and then present extensions to the TÆMS domainindependent representation of agent activities. We next describe extensions to GPGP that permit the representation of situation-specific coordination strategies and social laws as well as making possible the use of GPGP in large agent organizations. Additionally, we discuss a more complex view of commitments that takes into account uncertainty in commitments. We then present new coordination mechanisms for use in resource sharing and contracting, and more complex coordination mechanisms that use a cooperative search among agents to find appropriate commitments. We conclude with a discussion of future research directions.
Keywords: GPGP, TAEMS
Publication: Proceedings 1st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (Plenary Lecture/Extended Abstract), pp. 1 - 2
Date: 2002
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Notes: The full version is available as University of Massachusetts/Amherst Computer Science Technical Report 02-03.
Reference: Lesser, V.; Decker, K.; Wagner, T.; Carver, N.; Garvey, A.; Horling, B.; Neiman, D.; Podorozhny, R.; NagendraPrasad, M.; Raja, A.; Vincent, R.; Xuan, P.; Zhang, X.Q. Evolution of the GPGP/TAEMS Domain-Independent Coordination Framework. Proceedings 1st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (Plenary Lecture/Extended Abstract), pp. 1-2. 2002. The full version is available as University of Massachusetts/Amherst Computer Science Technical Report 02-03.
bibtex: 
@article{Lesser-222,
  author    = "V. Lesser and K. Decker and T. Wagner and N.
               Carver and A. Garvey and B. Horling and D. Neiman
               and R. Podorozhny and M. NagendraPrasad and A.
               Raja and R. Vincent and P. Xuan and X.Q Zhang",
  title     = "{Evolution of the GPGP/TAEMS Domain-Independent
               Coordination Framework}",
  journal   = "Proceedings 1st International Conference on
               Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (Plenary
               Lecture/Extended Abstract)",
  pages     = "1-2",
  year      = "2002",
  url       = "http://mas.cs.umass.edu/paper/222",
}