Paper Info
Title
Addressing the Brittleness of Agent Interaction
Abstract
The field of multi-agent systems shifts attention from one particular agent to a society of agents; hence the interactions between agents in the society become critical towards the achievement of their goals. We assume that the interactions are managed via a protocol which enables agents to coordinate their actions in order to handle the dependencies that exist between their activities. However, the agents' failures to comply with the constraints imposed by the protocol may cause the agents to have brittle interactions. To address this problem, a constraint relaxation approach derived from the Distributed Partial Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is proposed. This paper describes the computational aspects of the approach (i.e. specification of a distance metric, searching for a solvable problem and specification of a global distance function).
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/978-3-540-89674-6_24
PRIMA
Keywords
Field
DocType
partial constraint satisfaction,constraint relaxation approach,global distance function,brittle interaction,distance metric,particular agent,multi-agent systems shifts attention,solvable problem,agent interaction,computational aspect,constraint satisfaction problem,distance function,multi agent system
Mathematical optimization,Computer science,Metric (mathematics),Constraint relaxation,Constraint satisfaction problem
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5357
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
7
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mohd. Fadzil Hassan13912.59
Dave Robertson251.43