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Role of qualitative reasoning in a multi-agent system

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Computer Aided Systems Theory — EUROCAST'97 (EUROCAST 1997)

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The paper studies the possibility to use qualitative reasoning technology for improving behaviour of multi-agent systems. For this purpose, the twin-base communication model [Cao 97] is enriched to contain the state information (a tri-base model is defined) and it is combined with the idea of a super-agent. The super-agent exploring the qualitative reasoning methods acts as a global observer and state evaluator with limited reconfiguration rights. The impact and efficiency of the proposed approach are analysed.

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  1. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, The Gerstner Laboratory for Intelligent Decision Making and Control Department of Control Engineering Czech Technical University, Technická 2, CZ 166 27, Prague 6, Czech Republic

    Vladimir Mařík, Olga Štěpánková & Jiři Lažanský

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Mařík, V., Štěpánková, O., Lažanský, J. (1997). Role of qualitative reasoning in a multi-agent system. In: Pichler, F., Moreno-Díaz, R. (eds) Computer Aided Systems Theory — EUROCAST'97. EUROCAST 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1333. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0025060

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