Coordinating Plans of Autonomous Agents
Summary
This book deals with an important topic in distributed the coordination of autonomous agents' activities. It provides a framework for modelling agents with planning and communicative competence. Important issues in the book - How to recognize and reconcile conflicting intentions among a collection of agents. - How to recognize and take advantage of favorable interactions. - How to enable individual agents to represent and reason about the actions, plans, and knowledge of other agents in order to coordinate with them. - When to call a set of plans coordinated and what operations are possible to transform uncoordinated plans into coordinated ones. - How to enable agents to communicate and what communication languages or protocols to use, and what and when to communicate. The book is clearly written with many examples and background material.
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