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Agent’s meta-reasoning is a computational process that implements agent’s capability to reason on a higher level about another agent or a community of agents. There is a potential for meta-reasoning in multi-agent systems. Meta-reasoning can be used for reconstructing agents’ private knowledge, their mental states and for prediction of their future courses of action. Meta-agents should have the capability to reason about incomplete or imprecise information. Unlike the ordinary agents, the meta-agent may contemplate about the community of agents as a whole. This contribution presents application of the meta-reasoning process for the agent’s private knowledge detection within the multi-agent system for planning of humanitarian relief operations.
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Tožička, J., Bárta, J., Pěchouček, M. (2003). Meta-reasoning for Agents’ Private Knowledge Detection. In: Klusch, M., Omicini, A., Ossowski, S., Laamanen, H. (eds) Cooperative Information Agents VII. CIA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2782. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45217-1_23
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