IBP-Masi
1995/08:
Rapport de Recherche Masi /
Masi research reports
9 pages - Mars/March 1995 -
French document.
PostScript : Ko /Kb
Titre / Title: Agents situés, environnement et observation dans un SMA
Abstract : This paper is centered on situated agents, where communication involves an agent and his environment, by opposition to communicating agents, where it implies pre-defined acquaintances. A key point of the communication in a situated multi-agents system is observation, and more precisely, how an agent can extract knowledge from the result of his actions, result which is indeterministic due to the other agents simultaneous actions. The environment in such a system not only insures control and resolution of simultaneous actions, but also mediatizes and guarantees the observations consistency. We develop here the paradigm of the environment as a virtual machine on the example of SmalltalkAgents. Therefore, the DAI point of view, knowledge as postcondition to action, and the Distributed Systems one, events notification and message routing, are here complementary.
Publications internes Masi 1995 / Masi research reports 1995