AN ARCHITECTURE FOR DYNAMICALLY INTERACTING AGENTS

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In this paper, we present the layered agent architecture INTERRAP which has been developed to cope with the basic requirements for Cooperative Intelligent Systems (CIS): agents shall behave in a situated, efficient, and goal-directed manner, and they shall be able to interact (i.e. coordinate and collaborate) with other agents. Over the past few years, agent architectures combining reactive with deliberative facilities have become very trendy in DAI. However, most attempts end up at the local planning layer and fail to take into account important mechanisms for interaction and collaboration among agents. INTERRAP extends previous attempts to build layered architectures by a cooperation component which holds cooperation knowledge as well as a library of joint plant. The modules of the model and the flow of control among them are explained. The model is described and evaluated by the FORKS application, the simulation of an automated loading-dock.

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