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Using DESs for Temporal Diagnosis of Multi-agent Plan Execution

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The most common reason for plan repair are the violation of a plan’s temporal constraints. Air Traffic Control is an example of an area in which violations of the plan’s temporal constraints is rather a rule than an exception. In such domains there is a need for identifying the underlying causes of the constraint violations in order to improve plan repairs and to anticipate future constraint violations. This paper presents a model for identifying the causes of the temporal constraint violations.

This research is supported by the Technology Foundation STW, applied science division of NWO and the technology programme of the Ministry of Economic Affairs (the Netherlands). Project DIT5780: Distributed Model Based Diagnosis and Repair.

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de Jonge, F., Roos, N., Aldewereld, H. (2007). Using DESs for Temporal Diagnosis of Multi-agent Plan Execution. In: Petta, P., Müller, J.P., Klusch, M., Georgeff, M. (eds) Multiagent System Technologies. MATES 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4687. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74949-3_6

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