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Joint Research between the Artificial Intelligence Applications
Institute (AIAI) in the School of Informatics at the University of
Edinburgh and the Agents Technology Group (ATG) in the Department of
Cybernetics within the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Czech
Technical University in Prague.
The I-Globe Research considers the following type of distributed
planning problem:
- to be non-centralized and with flat organization hierarchy. The
existence of a central coordinating and planning process shall be
brought to absolute minimum and the planing knowledge, information
about actors skills, resource availability knowledge and goals
perception shall be distributed.
- shall provide partial knowledge sharing. The actors in the
environment are motivated to keep substantial part of their private
planning knowledge and resource availability information undisclosed.
- shall allow varying interaction availability. Based on
communication infrastructure featuring partial and temporal
inaccessibility due to e.g. ad-hoc networking, unreliability of the
communication infrastructure or actors to change off-line/on-line
status.
- is to be very dynamic where both resource availability as much as
goals persistence is expect to be changing between the planning and
execution phase, while also during the execution phase.
- is to be opportunistic. Allowing the actors reason about potential
goal accomplishment opportunities that may arise in the environment
and also consider opportunities of the collaborating actors in the
environment.
Such a set of requirements is typical for rescue operations, complex
humanitarian missions, OOTW, large scale multi-national coalition
operations as well as small size military combat ops. Such features
are also typical for complete different set of application domains
such as virtual organizations and social networking.
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