Communication-free interactions among rational agents: a probabilistic approach
Distributed artificial intelligence: vol. 2
Enabling technology for knowledge sharing
AI Magazine
Cooperation under uncertainty in distributed expert systems
Artificial Intelligence
Emergent coordination through the use of cooperative state-changing rules
AAAI '94 Proceedings of the twelfth national conference on Artificial intelligence (vol. 1)
Divide and conquer in multi-agent planning
AAAI '94 Proceedings of the twelfth national conference on Artificial intelligence (vol. 1)
Integrated premission planning and execution for unmanned ground vehicles
AGENTS '97 Proceedings of the first international conference on Autonomous agents
An explicit semantics for coordination multiagent plan execution
An explicit semantics for coordination multiagent plan execution
Multiagent systems: a modern approach to distributed artificial intelligence
Multiagent systems: a modern approach to distributed artificial intelligence
Coordinating Plans of Autonomous Agents
Coordinating Plans of Autonomous Agents
Coordination of Distributed Problem Solvers
Coordination of Distributed Problem Solvers
Organization Self-Design of Distributed Production Systems
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
The Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problem: Formalization and Algorithms
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
MAAMAW '92 Selected papers from the 4th European Workshop on on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World, Artificial Social Systems
Distributed Problem-Solving as Concurrent Theorem Proving
Proceedings of the 8th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World: Multi-Agent Rationality
A framework for organizational self-design in distributed problem solving networks
A framework for organizational self-design in distributed problem solving networks
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Understanding the role of negotiation in distributed search among heterogeneous agents
IJCAI'93 Proceedings of the 13th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence - Volume 1
IJCAI'95 Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
A Multi-agent Based Approach to the Inventory Routing Problem
PRICAI '02 Proceedings of the 7th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Trends in Artificial Intelligence
Coordination and Agreement in Multi-Agent Systems
CIA '08 Proceedings of the 12th international workshop on Cooperative Information Agents XII
Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems: Towards a Technology of Agreement
MATES '08 Proceedings of the 6th German conference on Multiagent System Technologies
Distributed AI for ambient intelligence: issues and approaches
AmI'07 Proceedings of the 2007 European conference on Ambient intelligence
Journal of Global Optimization
The actor's view of automated planning and acting: A position paper
Artificial Intelligence
Organisational structures in next-generation distributed systems: Towards a technology of agreement
Multiagent and Grid Systems
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Distributed problem solving involves tile collective effort of multiple problems solvers to combine their knowledge, information, and capabilities so as to develop solutions to problems that each could not have solved as well (if at all) alone. The challenge in distributed problem solving is thus in marshalling the distributed capabilities in the right ways so that the problem solving activities of each agent complement the activities of the others, so as to lead efficiently to effective solutions. Thus, while working together leads to distributed problem solving, there is also the distributed problem of how to work together that must be solved. We consider that problem to be a distributed planning problem, where each agent must formulate plans for what it will do that take into account (sufficiently well) the plans of other agents. In this paper, we characterize the variations of distributed problem solving and distributed planning, and summarize some of the basic techniques that have been developed to date.