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The tri-base acquaintance model of the agent's behaviour is presented in this paper. This represents an extension of the twin-base model [Cao 97]. Based on practical experience, the new model tries to cope with parallel processing, precedence constraints, and sparse resources. The idea of substituting the interagent negotiation processes by the internal planning activity of the agents is stressed. This strategy is enabled by periodic revisions of the knowledge and data contained in the tri-base knowledge/data bases.
The work presented in this paper was carried out under the support of the EUREKA PVS'98 project (no.1439), and the grants GAčR no.102/96/0382 and MšMT no.VS 96047.
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štĚpánková, O., PĚchouček, M., MaŘík, V., LaŽanský, J. (1998). Applications of model-based co-operative agents in production planning. In: Quirchmayr, G., Schweighofer, E., Bench-Capon, T.J. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1460. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0054519
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