ViSe2-an agent-based expert consulting system with efficient cooperation

Author

Bian, Cheng-Gang ; Cao, Wen ; Hartvigsen, Gunnar

Author_Institution

Inst. of Math. & Phys. Sci., Tromso Univ., Norway

fYear

1997

Firstpage

191

Lastpage

196

Abstract

ViSe2 is an expert consulting system which employs software agents to manage distributed knowledge sources. These individual software agents solve users´ problems either by themselves or via cooperation. The efficiency of cooperation plays a serious role in the systems considered. We have focused on the development of a twin-base approach for agents to model the capabilities of each other, and thus achieve efficient cooperation. The current version of the ViSe2 implementation is an experimental model of an agent-based expert system. We have run some performance tests, and compared with other cooperation approaches in distributed AI. The results received so far indicate that the ViSe2 agents serve their users in an efficient cooperation manner

Keywords

cooperative systems; distributed processing; expert systems; software agents; ViSe2; agent-based expert consulting system; distributed AI; distributed knowledge sources; efficient cooperation; software agents; twin-base approach; Computer science; Expert systems; Forward contracts; Intelligent agent; Intelligent systems; Knowledge management; Problem-solving; Software agents; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Engineering Systems, 1997. INES '97. Proceedings., 1997 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Budapest

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3627-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INES.1997.632415

Filename

632415