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Abstract : |
In the past two decades, researchers have developed various strategies to address MAS problem solving activities, i.e., agent organization construction, plan generation, task allocation, plan integration, and plan execution. Strategy, in this sense is the manner in which the agents perform their decision-making processes in conjunction with the manner in which they coordinate those processes. For example, agents may use arbitration, a centralized strategy, or negotiation, a distributed strategy. Equipping an agent with the ability to select their strategies will increase the flexibility and adaptability of system functionality. This paper describes current work to support such strategic decision making, specifically, the representation of strategies and various decisionmaking approaches. For the purpose of illustration, we also discuss strategy selection for conflict resolution, which is implemented within the Sensible Agents Testbed. 1., |
