Title :
An infrastructure for adaptive control of multi-agent systems
Author :
Kleinmann, Karl ; Lazarus, Richard ; Tomlinson, Ray
Author_Institution :
BBN Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
fDate :
30 Sept.-4 Oct. 2003
Abstract :
We present the control infrastructure of the Cougaar distributed agent system that was developed under the DARPA ALP and UltraLog programs. We motivate its design from a control theory perspective and discuss the characteristics of an agent system as the controlled process. These characteristics are arguably the reason why formal methods of control theory are rarely applied in software engineering for agent systems.
Keywords :
adaptive control; multi-agent systems; software agents; Cougaar distributed agent system; DARPA ALP program; UltraLog program; adaptive control system; control theory; formal method; multiagent system; software engineering; Adaptive control; Application software; Computer architecture; Control systems; Control theory; Hardware; Multiagent systems; Process control; Quality of service; Systems engineering and theory;
Conference_Titel :
Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems, 2003. International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7958-6
DOI :
10.1109/KIMAS.2003.1245050
