A Framework for Truth Maintenance in Multi-Agent Systems

Brett Bojduj (), Ben Weber () and Dennis Taylor ()
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Brett Bojduj: California Polytechnic State University
Ben Weber: California Polytechnic State University
Dennis Taylor: CDM Technologies, Inc.

A chapter in Operations Research Proceedings 2006, 2007, pp 403-408 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Maintaining logical consistency in a knowledge base that receives asynchronous events from collaborative agents poses a challenge, due to multiple agent perspectives of the knowledge base. Facades and filters further complicate this problem by distorting the definition of consistent knowledge. Therefore, maintaining logical consistency of the knowledge base requires an infrastructure for handling truth maintenance. This paper presents a generic, object-oriented framework for truth maintenance in collaborative multi-agent systems. The core of the framework is an agent that autonomously reasons on system events, thus guaranteeing the integrity of the knowledge base independent of external agents. Specialization to a particular domain is achieved through the description of tests that verify the consistency of the knowledge base. This paper shows an example of this approach in a real-world, multi-agent system and discusses performance and maintainability in such a system.

Keywords: Knowledge Base; Planning Agent; Logical Consistency; Truth Maintenance; Blackboard Architecture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69995-8_65

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