A framework for controlling cooperative agents

Author

Lee, Kuo-Chu ; Mansfield, William H., Jr. ; Sheth, Amit P.

Author_Institution

Bellcore, Piscataway, NJ, USA

Volume

26

Issue

7

fYear

1993

fDate

7/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

8

Lastpage

16

Abstract

Presents an overview of the ITX (Interacting Transaction) system, which supports complex interactions among cooperating agents in the presence of user interventions that change application objectives and system failures. The system´s components and its unique fixed-point criterion for feedback control of iterative interactions are described. An example of a simplified multimedia teleconferencing application is discussed to illustrate the features of the ITX system.<>

Keywords

adaptive systems; cooperative systems; distributed databases; distributed processing; feedback; groupware; interactive systems; multimedia systems; object-oriented databases; object-oriented programming; teleconferencing; transaction processing; ITX system; Interacting Transaction system; adaptive cooperation; application objectives; cooperating agents; cooperative agents; feedback control; fixed-point criterion; heterogeneous component systems; iterative interactions; multimedia teleconferencing application; shared objects; system failures; user interventions; Access control; Application software; Call conference; Control systems; Information resources; Multimedia databases; TV; Telecommunication computing; Telecommunication control; Videoconference;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MC.1993.274939

Filename

274939