Coordination of many agents

  • Authors:
  • Joxan Jaffar;Roland H. C. Yap;Kenny Q. Zhu

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore;School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore;School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore

  • Venue:
  • ICLP'05 Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Logic Programming
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper presents a reactive programming and triggering framework for the coordination of a large number of distributed agents with shared knowledge. At the heart of this framework is a highly structured shared store in the form of a constraint logic program (CLP), which is used as a knowledge base and being reacted to by agents through the use of “reactors”. The biggest challenge arising from such a reactive programming framework using CLP is to develop a trigger mechanism that allows efficient “wakeup” of blocked reactors. This paper addresses the architecture of this open framework, and discusses a general methodology for doing triggering of logic conditions using views and abstractions.