Galoan: a multi-agent approach to herd cows

  • Authors:
  • Vahid Rafe;Amin Nikanjam;Mohammad Rezaei

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Arak University, Arak, Iran 38156-8-8349;School of Computer Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran 1684613114;Islamic Azad University, Malayer, Iran

  • Venue:
  • Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper describes the team Galoan (it is a local Persian name that means shepherd), one of the participants in the Multi-Agent Programming Contest 2010. We present the agents' architecture as well as the team strategies and the coordination and cooperation approaches. Our system was developed using the blackboard style and was implemented in Java. In our approach each agent stores its perception in a shared world model which is called blackboard. Coordination has been implemented through a supervisor. The supervisor uses the stored information in the blackboard and coordinates the agents to achieve a goal. Finally, we outline our observations and discuss the performance of our team.