CNLS '89 Proceedings of the ninth annual international conference of the Center for Nonlinear Studies on Self-organizing, Collective, and Cooperative Phenomena in Natural and Artificial Computing Networks on Emergent computation
Consensus system for solving conflicts in distributed systems
Information Sciences—Informatics and Computer Science: An International Journal
On some properties of grounding uniform sets of modal conjunctions
Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems: Applications in Engineering and Technology
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One of the fundamental challenges of distributed multi-agent systems relates to the problem of knowledge integration --- where a collective stance of the distributed system needs to be determined and justified. Assuming a simple multi-agent system we present an intuitive and consistent approach to the integration of imprecise descriptions of individual beliefs about the external world. In particular, focusing our attention to simple modal statements of certainty, i.e., possibility, belief and knowledge, we state rational set of common-sense postulates against the integration results. Further, utilising the Grounding Theory, as the means for appropriate grounding of statements, and incorporating the approach with theory of mind, as the underlying mechanism for interpretation of statements, we introduce a two-stage integration procedure. Finally, we prove the appropriateness of the proposed solution, show its basic properties, and provide a simple computational example.