Congregating Agents

聚集代理

• 批准号: 9872057
• 负责人: William Birmingham
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-09-15 至 2002-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9872057&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Congregating; Agents

In agent-based systems, agents can team in different combinations to cooperatively solve problems. Teaming, however, requires that agents understand each other and commit to concerted actions. In open, evolving networked systems, universal understanding and commitment are unlikely; instead, agents should congregate with those agents that they can understand and with whom they have successfully teamed in the past. Agent congregations are defined by commitments to common semantics and ontologies (conceptualizations of the world). Congregating improves the efficiency of communication and the likelihood of successful teaming. It can, however, impede the formation of effective teams whose members cross congregations, because agents need to learn new ontologies and incur overhead in searching for new congregations that meet their preferences. This project investigates how agent congregations are formed and how and when they should be reformed. The research includes simulations of large communities of agents, formal models of agency, and prototype systems. Its results will help guide the development of a national computing and communication infrastructure that supports the evolving identities and interests of scientific, educational, and commercial communities, and encourages communication between different communities. http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/wpb/conagents/

在基于代理的系统中，代理可以以不同的组合协作解决问题。然而，团队合作需要代理相互理解并致力于协调一致的行动。在开放的、不断发展的网络系统中，普遍的理解和承诺是不太可能的；相反，代理应该与那些他们可以理解并在过去成功合作的代理聚集在一起。代理集合通过对公共语义和本体(世界的概念化)的承诺来定义。聚集提高了沟通效率和成功组队的可能性。然而，它可能会阻碍成员跨会众的有效团队的形成，因为代理需要学习新的本体，并在搜索符合他们偏好的新会众时产生开销。这个项目调查代理人集合是如何形成的，以及它们应该如何以及何时进行改革。研究包括对大型代理社区的模拟、代理的形式化模型和原型系统。其成果将有助于指导国家计算和通信基础设施的发展，以支持科学、教育和商业社区不断发展的身份和利益，并鼓励不同社区之间的交流。Http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/wpb/conagents/