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International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems

CEEMAS 2003: Multi-Agent Systems and Applications III pp 292–302Cite as

Multi-agent Knowledge Logistics System “KSNet”: Implementation and Case Study for Coalition Operations

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A research carried out in the framework of the knowledge logistics lies in the base of the paper. As a result of the research an approach addressing the knowledge logistics problem was developed. The approach considers the problem as a problem of configuring a knowledge source network. The network is assumed to consist of distributed heterogeneous knowledge sources. An implementation of the approach has been put into practice through its realization in the system “KSNet”. Distribution and heterogeneity of the knowledge sources gives a distributed and scalable character to the problem of the network configuring. Such nature of the problem causes for the system to have a multi-agent architecture. The paper presents a prototype of the developed multi-agent community implementation in the system “KSNet” and a constraint-based protocol designed for the agents. negotiation. Application of the community to coalition-based operations support and the protocol is illustrated via a case study based on the Binni scenario.

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  1. St.Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian, Academy of Sciences, 39, 14-th Line, 199178, St.-Petersburg, Russia

    Alexander Smirnov, Mikhail Pashkin, Nikolai Chilov & Tatiana Levashova

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Smirnov, A., Pashkin, M., Chilov, N., Levashova, T. (2003). Multi-agent Knowledge Logistics System “KSNet”: Implementation and Case Study for Coalition Operations. In: Mařík, V., Pěchouček, M., Müller, J. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems and Applications III. CEEMAS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2691. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45023-8_28

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