NSF-CNPq Collaborative Research: Combining Cognitive & Utilitarian Coordination in a Layered Agent Architecture

这个CNPq研究项目将使马萨诸塞州阿默斯特大学的一个研究小组与巴西南里奥格兰德大学人工智能组的一个研究小组合作。它们将共同创建一个两级多代理框架。在更高的层次上，一个子系统的原因有关的符号信息将被开发。其活动涉及特定领域的协调任务。在较低层次，将开发一个子系统，对定量信息进行推理。它的活动涉及可行性和执行业务。这两层由相互依赖且异步操作的活动组成。下层向上层提供反馈;上层通过在必要时改变其任务或性能目标来响应反馈。这样的体系结构将使多代理系统更容易在开放的环境中发挥作用，如互联网，其中要实现的目标，可用的资源和其他交互代理是动态变化的。

This CNPq research project will enable a research group at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst to cooperate with a research group at the Artificial Intelligence Group at the University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. Together they will create a two-level multi-agent framework. At the higher level, a subsystem that reasons about symbolic information will be developed. Its activities pertain to domain-specific coordination tasks. At the lower level, a subsystem will be developed that reasons about quantitative information. Its activities pertain to feasibility and implementation operations. The two layers comprise interdependent activities that operate asynchronously. The lower layer provides feedback to the upper layer; the upper layer responds to the feedback by altering its tasks or performance objectives where necessary. Such an architecture will make it easier for multi-agent systems to function in open environments, such as the Internet, where the goals to be achieved, the resources available and the other interacting agents are dynamically changing.