Varying the User Interaction within Multi-Agent Systems - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Varying the User Interaction within Multi-Agent Systems

Terence Payne, Katia Sycara, Terri L. Lenox, and Susan K. Hahn
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AGENTS '00), pp. 412 - 418, June, 2000

Abstract

Agents within an open multi-agent system are located through their advertisements with middle agents. Such advertisements describe the agent's capability, ontology, query or task specification, and details about the data returned once the task has been completed. Agents may have similar capabilities, but exhibit different models of user interaction. A case study of a multi-agent system is described which contains a variety of different agents, some of which have functionally similar capabilities but involve different types of user interaction. We demonstrate how the choice of user interaction can have a significant effect on the performance of the whole agent community. This leads to the proposal that an agent's interactive style should also be included within its capability advertisement.

BibTeX

@conference{Payne-2000-16737,
author = {Terence Payne and Katia Sycara and and Terri L. Lenox and Susan K. Hahn},
title = {Varying the User Interaction within Multi-Agent Systems},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AGENTS '00)},
year = {2000},
month = {June},
pages = {412 - 418},
}