AN AGENT MODEL FOR DISTRIBUTED PART-SELECTION Timothy P Darr and William P Birmingham 1996


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    • Author:  by Advanced Technologies  Timothy P. Darr  William P. Birmingham  

    • Abstract:  This report presents the agent model for a set of catalog, constraint and system agents. For each type of agent, the model defines the goals it can achieve; messages sent agents to other agents requesting that they achieve some goal; the commitments that they make, internally, to achieve goals in response to the messages; and messages that it sends once a goal is achieved. The messages that an agent sends and receives are intentional and are organized into protocols that define the type, sequence and content of messages exchanged among agents to achieve goals. 1 . 1 Agent Model Definitions This section defines the elements of the agent model, which is based loosely on the agentoriented programming (AOP) paradigm (Shoham 1993) consisting of agent actions, beliefs, obligations, and decisions 1 . At any time t, an agent can receive a message from another agent. Receiving message m at time t is represented by the predicate recv(m, t). For each message, there is a goal to achieve, expres...

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