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Most research about multi-agent coordination is concentrated
at a high level, e.g., developing coordination interaction
protocols to be imposed on agents. There has been
less concern about how the internal task structures of individual
agents affect these higher-level coordination behaviors.
In particular, agent planning and scheduling behaviors
are inextricably linked to coordination behaviors.
This paper proposes some extensions and restrictions to the
expressiveness of traditional plan and schedule representations
that allow the formal definition of the multi-agent coordination
problem. We recast our GPGP coordination approach
using this formalism, and present a set of general
rules relating task environment characteristics and this implemented
set of GPGP coordination mechanisms.
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Citation:
Wei Chen, Keith S. Decker,
"Managing Multi-Agent Coordination, Planning, and Scheduling,"
aamas,
pp. 1360-1361,
Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3 (AAMAS'04),
2004
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