Distributed abductive reasoning with constraints

  • Authors:
  • Jiefei Ma;Alessandra Russo;Krysia Broda;Emil Lupu

  • Affiliations:
  • Imperial College London, United Kingdom;Imperial College London, United Kingdom;Imperial College London, United Kingdom;Imperial College London, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Abductive inference has many known applications in multi-agent systems. However, most abductive frameworks rely on a centrally executed proof procedure whereas many of the application problems are distributed by nature. Confidentiality and communication overhead concerns often preclude transmitting all the knowledge required for centralised reasoning. We present in this paper a novel multi-agent abductive reasoning framework underpinned by a flexible and extensible distributed proof procedure that permits collaborative abductive reasoning with constraints between agents over decentralised knowledge.