Title
Cooperation and Competition in ALIAS: A Logic Framework for Agents that Negotiate
Abstract
This paper presents ALIAS, an agent architecture based on intelligent logic agents, where the main form of agent reasoning is abduction. The system is particularly suited for solving problems where knowledge is incomplete, where agents may need to make reasonable hypotheses about the problem domain and other agents, and where the raised hypotheses have to be consistent for the overall set of agents. ALIAS agents are pro-active, exhibiting a goal-directed behavior, and autonomous, since each one can solve problems using its own private knowledge base. ALIAS agents are also social, because they are able to interact with other agents, in order to cooperatively solve problems. The coordination mechanisms are modeled by means of LAILA, a logic-based language which allows to express intra-agent reasoning and inter-agent coordination. As an application, we show how LAILA can be used to implement inter-agent dialogues, e.g., for negotiation. In particular, LAILA is well-suited to coordinate the process of negotiation aimed at exchanging resources between agents, thus allowing them to execute the plans to achieve their goals.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1023/A:1020259411066
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Keywords
DocType
Volume
logic agents, abductive reasoning, dialogue, negotiation, coordination
Journal
37
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1573-7470
30
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.97
35
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anna Ciampolini113315.72
Evelina Lamma21268109.21
Paola Mello344421.33
Francesca Toni41844123.95
Paolo Torroni5116780.57