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Indefinite Integration as a Testbed for Developments in Multi-agent Systems

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Artificial Intelligence, Automated Reasoning, and Symbolic Computation (AISC 2002, Calculemus 2002)

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Coordination of multiple autonomous agents to solve problems that require each of them to contribute their limited expertise in the construction of a solution is often ensured by the use of numerical methods such as vote-counting, payoff functions, game theory and economic criteria. In areas where there are no obvious numerical methods for agents to use in assessing other agents’ contributions, many questions still remain open for research. The paper reports a study of one such area: heuristic indefinite integration in terms of agents with different single heuristic abilities which must cooperate in finding indefinite integrals. It examines the reasons for successes and lack of success in performance, and draws some general conclusions about the usefulness of indefinite integration as a field for realistic tests of methods for multi-agent systems where the usefulness of “economic” criteria is limited. In this connection, the role of numerical taxonomy is emphasised.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK

    J. A. Campbell

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  1. University of Karlsruhe (TH), Am Fasanengarten 5, Postfach 6980, D-76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Jacques Calmet

  2. CMI, Université de Provence, 39 rue F. Juliot-Curie, 13453, Marseille Cedex 13, France

    Belaid Benhamou

  3. Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC-Linz), Johannes Kepler University, A-4040, Linz, Austria

    Olga Caprotti

  4. ESIL, Université de la Méditerannée, 163 Avenue de Luminy, Marseille Cedex 09, France

    Laurent Henocque

  5. School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK

    Volker Sorge

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Campbell, J.A. (2002). Indefinite Integration as a Testbed for Developments in Multi-agent Systems. In: Calmet, J., Benhamou, B., Caprotti, O., Henocque, L., Sorge, V. (eds) Artificial Intelligence, Automated Reasoning, and Symbolic Computation. AISC Calculemus 2002 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2385. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45470-5_12

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