Abstract architecture for meta-reasoning in multi-agent systems

  • Authors:
  • Michal Pěchouček;Olga Štepánková;Vladimír Mařík;Jaroslav Bárta

  • Affiliations:
  • Gerstner Laboratory, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague 6, Czech Republic;Gerstner Laboratory, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague 6, Czech Republic and Center of Applied Cybernetics, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague 6, Czech Republic;Gerstner Laboratory, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague 6, Czech Republic and Center of Applied Cybernetics, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague 6, Czech Republic;Center of Applied Cybernetics, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague 6, Czech Republic

  • Venue:
  • CEEMAS'03 Proceedings of the 3rd Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-agent systems
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Agent's meta-reasoning is a computational process that implements agent's capability to reason on a higher level about another agents or a community ofagen ts. There is a potential for meta-reasoning in multi-agent systems. Meta-reasoning can be used for reconstructing agents' private knowledge, their mental states and for prediction of their future courses of action. Meta-agents should have the capability to reason about incomplete or imprecise information. Unlike the ordinary agents, the meta-agent may contemplate about the community of agents as a whole and is expected to contribute to agent's operation efficiency improvement. This contribution suggests a theoretical specification of an abstract reasoning and knowledge representation architecture for the meta-reasoning agents and discusses/categorizes the related computational processes.