Modularity Assumptions in Situated Agency

Thisresearchfocusesona specific class of agentscalled "situated agents", which use minimalcommunication and rely mostlyon changesin the environmentas their cue for action. Someearly successes of this model, especially in robotics, haveled to an intense debate over this class of modelsas a whole. Oneof the issues on which attention has been drawnis that of conflicts between such agents. In this workweinvestigatea cyclic conflict that results in infinite looping betweenagentsand has a severe debilitating effect on performance. Wepresent somenewresults in the debate, and comparethis problemwith similar cyclicity observedin planningsystems, meta-level planners, distributed agent modelsand hybrid situated models.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: AAAI
• Authors: Amol Dattatraya Mali, Amitabha Mukerjee
• Keywords: AAAI 1997, Infinite Looping Betweenagentsand, Intelligent Agents, Intense Debate, Workweinvestigatea Cyclic Conflict