Implementing pheromone-based, negotiating forager agents

Authors:
Simon Coffey;Dorian Gaertner
Affiliations:
Imperial College London, United Kingdom;Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Venue:
CLIMA'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems
Year:
2005

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Abstract

We describe an implementation of distributed, multi-threaded BDI-style [RG95] agents cooperating efficiently in a foraging scenario. Using ant-style pheromone trails as the basis for a pseudo-random walk procedure, they explore the world uniformly and negotiate to allocate collection and delivery tasks. Global information is disseminated via a publish/subscribe mechanism. The system is implemented using the concurrent logic programming language Qu-Prolog.