ONR (Office of Naval Research) Research in Distributed Reasoning and Planning.
Abstract
The goal of the Distributed Reasoning and Planning projects has been to provide fundamental research into the principles upon which a network of intelligent, cooperative computer agents can be based. The motivation for distributed system of intelligent agents arises when we consider problem domains with the following characteristics: 1) The environment is naturally partitioned, either spatially or functionally. An example of the former is a surveillance task in which several different areas must be patrolled; of the latter, assembly tasks in which major subcomponents can be assembled in parallel; 2) Each process's view of the environment is dynamic: other processes may be performing tasks at the same time, and chains of events may result from ongoing natural processes; 3) Each process has partial or imperfect knowledge of the environment; and 4) The cost of communication among processes may be high or the communication channels may be slow, so that there is a significant delay in sending large amounts of information. Keywords: Embedding; Computer logic.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1987
- Accession Number
- ADA182724
Entities
People
- Amy L. Lansky
- Kurt G. Konolige
- Michael P. Georgeff
Organizations
- SRI International