BAAC: A Prolog System for Action Description and Agents Coordination

Authors Agostino Dovier, Andrea Formisano, Enrico Pontelli



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Agostino Dovier
Andrea Formisano
Enrico Pontelli

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Agostino Dovier, Andrea Formisano, and Enrico Pontelli. BAAC: A Prolog System for Action Description and Agents Coordination. In Technical Communications of the 27th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP'11). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 11, pp. 187-197, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2011)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICLP.2011.187

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The paper presents a system for knowledge representation and coordination, where autonomous agents reason and act in a shared environment. Agents autonomously pursue individual goals, but can interact through a shared knowledge repository. In their interactions, agents deal with problems of synchronization and concurrency, and have to realize coordination by developing proper strategies in order to ensure a consistent global execution of their autonomously derived plans. This kind of knowledge is modeled using an extension of the action description language B. A distributed planning problem is formalized by providing a number of declarative specifications of the portion of the problem pertaining a single agent. Each of these specifications is executable by a stand-alone CLP-based planner. The coordination platform, implemented in Prolog, is easily modifiable and extensible. New user-defined interaction protocols can be integrated.
Keywords
  • Knowledge Representation
  • Multi-Agent Systems
  • Planning
  • CLP

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