| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/R57843/01 |
| Title: |
Optimizations of Multi-Agent Systems |
| Principal Investigator: |
Schmidt, Dr RA |
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Computer Science |
| Organisation: |
University of Manchester, The |
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Fast Stream |
| Starts: |
01 April 2002 |
Ends: |
31 March 2005 |
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65,728
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Research in Multi Agent Systems is a growing area which adresses the need to move from the development of massive programs containing millions of lines of code, to smaller, modular, pieces of code, where each module performs a well defined, focused task (rather than thousands of them). Software agents as well as web-agents constitute the latest innovation in this trend. As opposed to classical software-engineering approaches software agents are programmed to interact with and provide services to other agents, including humans. They also act autonomously with prescribed backgrounds, beliefs, and operations. Systems of suchagents can access and manipulate heterogenously stored data such as that found on the Internet.The current proposal focusses on the following two problems that are faced by any agent system; (P1) Agents need to react quickly to changes in the world. Their decision component must be designed for efficiency. (P2) Agents are often confronted with a large number of client requests that need to be satisfied concurrently. Solutions to (P1) and (P2) certainly depend on the underlying framework, the theory of agents is based upon. The PI has worked intensively in recent years on a particular approach called IMPACT. This framework, because it is based on rigorous formal methods, makes it quite easy to formulate both problems in a precise, and formal manner so that both problems can be mathematically investigated. On the other hand, IMPACT is so generic, that it is to be expected that any solution of (P1) and (P2) in IMPACT is likely to carry over to the general problems as well.
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