Meta-reasoning for Agents' Private Knowledge Detection

Abstract. Agent’s meta-reasoning is a computational process that implements agent’s capability to reason on a higher level about another agent or a community of agents. There is a potential for meta-reasoning in multi-agent systems. Meta-reasoning can be used for reconstructing agents’ private knowledge, their mental states and for prediction of their future courses of action. Meta-agents should have the capability to reason about incomplete or imprecise information. Unlike the ordinary agents, the meta-agent may contemplate about the community of agents as a whole. This contribution presents application of the meta-reasoning process for the agent’s private knowledge detection within the multi-agent system for planning of humanitarian relief operations.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: CIA
• Authors: Jan Tozicka, Jaroslav Barta, Michal Pechoucek
• Keywords: Agent’s Capability, CIA 2003, Multi-agent System, Private Knowledge