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Using a Planner for Coordination Of Multiagent Team Behavior


Oliver Obst. Using a Planner for Coordination Of Multiagent Team Behavior. In Rafael H. Bordini, Mehdi Dastani, Jürgen Dix, and Amal ElFallah Seghrouchni, editors, Programming Multi-Agent Systems: Third International Workshop, ProMAS 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 26, 2005, Revised and Invited Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 90 – 100, Springer, Berlin, March 2006.


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Abstract

We present an approach to coordinate the behavior of a multiagent team using an HTN planning procedure. To coordinate teams, high level tasks have to be broken down into subtasks which is a basic operation in HTN planners. We are using planners in each of the agents to incorporate domain knowledge and to make agents follow a specified team strategy. With our approach, agents coordinate deliberatively and still maintain a high degree of reactivity. In our implementation for use in RoboCup Simulation League, first results were already very promising. Using a planner leads to better separation of agent code and expert knowledge.

BiBTeX Entry


@incollection{Obst06,
},
	Address = {Berlin},
	Annote = {ISBN: 3-540-32616-2},
	Author = {Oliver Obst},
	Booktitle = {Programming Multi-Agent Systems: Third International
		   Workshop, ProMAS 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 26, 2005, Revised and
		   Invited Papers},
	Editor = {Rafael H. Bordini and Mehdi Dastani and J{\"u}rgen Dix and
		   Amal {ElFallah Seghrouchni}},
	Html = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11678823_6},
	Month = Mar,
	Pages = {90 -- 100},
	Publisher = {Springer},
	Series = lncs,
	Title = {Using a Planner for Coordination Of Multiagent Team
		   Behavior},
	Volume = {3862},
	Year = {2006},