Abstract communication for coordinated planning

Clement, Bradley J.; Durfee, Edmund H.

dc.contributor.author	Clement, Bradley J.
dc.contributor.author	Durfee, Edmund H.
dc.date.accessioned	2006-06-13T16:54:28Z
dc.date.available	2006-06-13T16:54:28Z
dc.date.issued	2003-07-14
dc.identifier.citation	AAMAS - Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Melbourne, Australia, July 14, 2003.	en
dc.identifier.clearanceno	02-3054
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2014/39368
dc.description.abstract	Previous work offers evidence that distributed planning agents can greatly reduce communication costs by reasoning at abstract levels. While it is intuitive that improved search can reduce communication in such cases, there are other decisions about how to communicate plan information that greatly affect communication costs. This paper identifies cases independent of search where communicating at multiple levels of abstraction can exponentially decrease costs and where it can exponentially add costs. We conclude with a process for determining appropriate levels of communication based on characteristics of the domain.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	NASA/JPL	en
dc.format.extent	2259208 bytes
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.publisher	Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2003.	en
dc.subject	multiple agents	en
dc.subject	coordination	en
dc.subject	planning	en
dc.subject	scheduling	en
dc.subject	Mars	en
dc.title	Abstract communication for coordinated planning	en
dc.type	Preprint	en