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de Jong, E. D. (1997) Multi-agent coordination by communication of evaluations. In Boman, M. and Van de Velde, W., editors, Proceedings of the Eighth European Wrokshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agnet World. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
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Multi­Agent Coordination by
Communication of Evaluations
Edwin de Jong
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Pleinlaan 2, B 1050 Brussels, Belgium
email: edwin@arti.vub.ac.be
tel: +32 2 629 37 00
fax: +32 2 629 37 29
Abstract. A framework for coordination in multi­agent systems is intro­ duced. The main idea of our framework is that an agent with knowledge about the desired behavior in a certain domain will direct other, domain­ independent agents by means of signals which reflect its evaluation of the coordination between its own actions and their actions. Mechanisms for coordination are required to enable construction of open multi­agent sys­ tems. The goal of this investigation was to test the feasibility of guiding an agent with coordination evaluation signals, and furthermore to gather experience with instantiating the framework on a testbed domain, the Pursuit Problem. In the testbed system, agents have been created which choose their actions by maximizing the coordination evaluation signals they will receive. The performance of these agents turned out to rank among the best results encountered in literature, and behavior guided by coordination evaluation signals can thus be concluded to be useful in this domain.
1 Introduction Without a proper mechanism that guides interactions, the mere result of gath­ ering many agents into a multi­agent system is chaos. Several such mechanisms exist. A short account of these is given in the next section. Most of these mechanisms assume that the agents involved have direct access to the system in which they are incorporated. This implies that only agents that were designed specifically for the application at hand can be put to use. We want to investigate whether this restriction can be overcome. To this end, a coordination mechanism for multi­agent systems has been defined that allows domain­independent agents to behave usefully in an unknown environment. To learn how to do this, they are supplied ...
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@inproceedings{dejong97multiAgent,
  author={E. D. de Jong},
  title={Multi-agent coordination by communication of evaluations},
  year={1997},
  address={Berlin},
  editor={Boman, M. and Van de Velde, W.},
  publisher={Springer-Verlag},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the Eighth European Wrokshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agnet World},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/dejong97multiAgent.html}
}

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