Monitoring deployed agent teams

Recent years are seeing an increasing need for on-line monitoring of deployed distributed teams of cooperating agents, e.g., for visualization, or performance tracking. However, in deployed systems, we often cannot rely on the agents to communicate their state to the monitoring system: (a) we rarely can change the behavior of already-deployed agents to communicate the required information (e.g., in legacy or proprietary systems); (b) different monitoring goals require different information to be communicated (e.g., agents’ beliefs vs. plans); and (c) communications may be expensive, unreliable, or insecure. This paper presents a non-intrusive approach based on plan-recognition, in which the monitored agents’ state is inferred from observations of their routine actions. In particular, we focus on inference of the team state based on its observed routine communications, exchanged as part of coordinated task execution. The paper includes the following key novel contributions: (i) a l...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: AGENTS
• Authors: Gal A. Kaminka, David V. Pynadath, Milind Tambe
• Keywords: AGENTS 2001, Monitoring System, Observed Routine Communications, On-line Monitoring, Security Privacy