Reasoning support for flexible task resourcing

  • Authors:

  • Murat Şensoy;Wamberto W. Vasconcelos;Timothy J. Norman;Katia Sycara

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, AB24 3UE Aberdeen, UK;Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, AB24 3UE Aberdeen, UK;Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, AB24 3UE Aberdeen, UK;Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, AB24 3UE Aberdeen, UK and Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In many settings, fully automated reasoning about tasks and resources is crucial. This is particularly important in multi-agent systems where tasks are monitored, managed and performed by intelligent agents. For these agents, it is critical to autonomously reason about the types of resources a task may require. However, determining appropriate resource types requires extensive expertise and domain knowledge. In this paper, we propose a means to automate the selection of resource types that are required to fulfil tasks. Our approach combines ontological reasoning and Logic Programming in a novel way for flexible matchmaking of resources to tasks. Using the proposed approach, intelligent agents can autonomously reason about the resources and tasks in various real-life settings and we demonstrate this here through case-studies. Our evaluation shows that the proposed approach equips intelligent agents with flexible reasoning support for task resourcing.