An Abductive Framework for Information Exchange in Multi-agent Systems

In this paper, we propose a framework for information exchange among abductive agents whose local knowledge bases are enlarged with a set of abduced hypotheses. We integrate the aspects of information exchange and abductive reasoning, and show theoretically the information inferred by the single abductive agent as a product of joint reasoning activity. We show examples, like dining philosophers, resource exchange and speculative computation, and give an implementation of the space of interactions based on CLP(SET ).

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: CLIMA
• Authors: Marco Gavanelli, Evelina Lamma, Paola Mello, Paolo Torroni
• Keywords: Abductive Agent, CLIMA 2004, CLIMA 2007, Information Exchange, Single Abductive Agent