Introduction to planning in multiagent systems

  • Authors:
  • Mathijs de Weerdt;Brad Clement

  • Affiliations:
  • (Correspd. E-mail: M.M.deWeerdt@tudelft.nl) Delft University of Technology, PO Box 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands;Jet propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91750, USA

  • Venue:
  • Multiagent and Grid Systems - Planning in multiagent systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In most multiagent systems planning on forehand can help to seriously improve the efficiency of executing actions. The main difference between centrally creating a plan and constructing a plan for a system of agents lies in the fact that in the latter coordination plays the main part. This introduces a number of additional difficulties. This special issue discusses some of these difficulties in detail. To place these in a context, this introduction gives a brief overview of multiagent planning problems, and most multiagent planning techniques.