Plan Management Capabilities for Autonomous Agents: Extending the Basic Mechanisms

Abstract

Software agents can assist a human user in overseeing, managing and coordinating large and potentially complex sets of plans. Such agents are potentially of great value in both military and civilian applications. This report addresses plan management software agent technology. There were three main goals in the research: 1. Design, implementation, and experimental analysis of algorithms for supporting plan management capabilities in agent software systems. 2. Adaptation of the plan management agents into a system that can interact with the agent sandbox, or "grid", developed in the DARPA CoABS program for agent registry, search, and interaction. 3. Development of initial techniques for using the plan management agent algorithms to support outsourcing of tasks in agent communities,

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA408497

Entities

People

  • Martha E. Pollack

Organizations

  • University of Pittsburgh

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Algorithms
  • Application Software
  • Applied Computer Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence Software
  • Autonomous Agents
  • Computer Science
  • Information Operations
  • Information Systems
  • Military Research
  • New York
  • Software Agents
  • Standards

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Defense Acquisition Program Management