Requirements driven agent collaboration

ABSTRACT

This paper proposes the requirements driven agent collaboration. This proposal assumes that there are plenty different service agents distributed in Internet. When a request for accomplishing a particular task occurs, these autonomous agents can recognize the newly emergent requirements and dynamically aggregate together to compete with others for fulfilling the requirements. This paper presents a preliminary framework for the requirement driven agent collaboration based on the automated mechanism design.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
      C.2.4 Distributed Systems

Additional Classification:
  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.2 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
        I.2.11 Distributed Artificial Intelligence
            Subjects: Coherence and coordination; Multiagent systems

General Terms:
Theory

Keywords:
collaboration, mechanism design, multiagent