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Autonomous agents coordination: action languages meet CLP($$\mathcal {FD}$$) and Linda. (English) Zbl 1267.68079
Summary: The paper presents a knowledge representation formalism, in the form of a high-level action description language (ADL) for multi-agent systems, where autonomous agents reason and act in a shared environment. Agents are autonomously pursuing individual goals, but are capable of interacting through a shared knowledge repository. In their interactions through shared portions of the world, the agents deal with problems of synchronization and concurrency; the action language allows the description of strategies to ensure a consistent global execution of the agents’ autonomously derived plans. A distributed planning problem is formalized by providing the declarative specifications of the portion of the problem pertaining to a single agent. Each of these specifications is executable by a stand-alone CLP-based planner. The coordination among agents exploits a Linda infrastructure. The proposal is validated in a prototype implementation developed in SICStus Prolog.

##### MSC:
 68N17 Logic programming
##### Software:
AgentSpeak; Jason
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