The contract net protocol: high-level communication and control in a distributed problem solver
Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Open information systems semantics for distributed artificial intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
The computational brain
Artificial Intelligence
Controlling cooperative problem solving in industrial multi-agent systems using joint intentions
Artificial Intelligence
Communication and cooperation in agent systems: a pragmatic theory
Communication and cooperation in agent systems: a pragmatic theory
Readings in agents
Understanding cooperation: an agent's perspective
Readings in agents
The Design of Intelligent Agents: A Layered Approach
The Design of Intelligent Agents: A Layered Approach
Multiagent Systems: A Theoretical Framework for Intentions, Know-how, and Communications
Multiagent Systems: A Theoretical Framework for Intentions, Know-how, and Communications
An Architectural Framework for CKBS Applications
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Towards a Theoretical Foundation for Cooperating Knowledge Based Systems
ISMIS '99 Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Foundations of Intelligent Systems
A Database Perspective to a Cooperation Environment
CIA '97 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents
A Fault-Tolerant Cooperative Distributed System
DEXA '98 Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
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This paper first describes a cooperation approach for a Cooperating Knowledge Based System, founded on an engineering paradigm (as against a mentallistic paradigm of DAI) that is meant to ensure termination of the execution process at user-defined recoverable points. The paper then develops an execution model, based on a highly distributed architecture with many operational primitives. The execution model forces the operations to terminate at the start of these primitives without forming any cycles, which are are avoided by rigorous control at each functional components within an agent. The model also supports rollback, redo, recovery and abort, and provides operational stability. This model is intended to provide the theoretical foundation of a major international project in agent-based manufacturing.