Social Structures and Artifacts for Intelligent Agent Systems

该奖项支持多智能体系统的模式语言和模式书的定义和开发，以及基于智能体系统的正式社会结构和广义社会软件工件的开发。 实现社会结构的人工制品是独立于与它们交互的智能代理而存在的软件体现的实体。 协调和控制任务在代理和与它们交互的社会工件之间划分。这种分工允许使用协调机制，旨在控制协调成本的组合爆炸，预计在系统中有大量的代理。它还可以在基于代理的系统中显式控制紧急社会行为。 模式语言将改善智能代理系统中开发人员和研究人员之间的专业知识转移，社会结构和工件将允许创建可扩展到具有大量代理的系统的协调算法。http://www.eas.asu.edu/~gcss/

This award supports research into the definition and development of a pattern language and pattern book for multi-agent systems, and the development of formal social structures and generalized social software artifacts for agent-based systems. The artifacts implementing the social structures are software-embodied entities existing separately from the intelligent agents that interact with them. Coordination and control tasks are divided between agents and the social artifacts with which they interact. This division of labor allows the use of coordination mechanisms designed to control the combinatorial explosions of coordination costs that are expected in systems with large numbers of agents. It also enables explicit control of emergent social behavior in agent-based systems. The pattern language will improve expertise transfer between developers and researchers in intelligent agent systems, and the social structures and artifacts will allow creation of coordination algorithms scalable to systems with large numbers of agents. http://www.eas.asu.edu/~gcss/