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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KIPSTB.2002.9B.2.147

A Study to Generate a Theory of Coordination for Intelligent Agent Societies  

Kim, Eun-Gyung (한국기술교육대학교 정보기술공학부)
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The KIPS Transactions:PartB / v.9B, no.2, 2002 , pp. 147-154 More about this Journal
Abstract
In bulding Intelligent Agent Societies (IAS), it is very important to design and implement coordination in accordance with the known requirement and anticipated working conditions. Coordination consists of a set of mechanisms necessary for the effective operation of IAS. Currently, there is little theoretical support that could help in this research is to generate an empirically-based solving systems in which all agent share an identical goal structure and fully cooperate. And we developed a simulation model called "P-System" which produces basic data to be used for statistical analysis to generate a theory of coordination. Coordination among agent in the P-System is dependent on 23 control variables calld TEs(tweakable emtities.)And the level of coordination is represennted by an independent variabe called QMC (Quality Measure Coordination) expressed in numerical terms according tn the definiion of this study. Also, we have studied how to select unbiased subset from the huge total experimental space of the P-System and how to decide the scale of the subset.
Keywords
coordination theory; empirical approach; intelligent agent societies; qualitative designs; quantitative experiments;
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