Northeast Artificial Intelligence Consortium annual report. 1988 distributed planning for dynamic environments in the presence of time constraints. Volume 5. Interim report

Technical Report · Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1989

OSTI ID:7184603

Meyer, R A; Conry, S; Cohen, P R; Lesser, V R

Our primary goal has been one of developing a distributed firefighting simulator. This is necessary in order to provide an environment in which agents can cooperatively plan to contain fires. In order to accomplish this task, a number of issues related to timing, agent synchronization, management of thinking time and acting time, and agent capabilities must be resolved. The testbed simulator has not been designed simply as a distribution of the existing centralized firefighting simulator. The issues of time and agent synchronization in a multi-agent environment necessitated a complete redesign of the simulation. The new design permits multiple agents to work simultaneously and independently. It includes a facility for defining the characteristics of communications among agents, with available communication media independently specified. In addition, the new simulator will reflect much more realistic terrain representation and a significantly improved fire model than the existing centralized simulator.

• Research Organization: Syracuse Univ., NY (USA)
• OSTI ID: 7184603
• Report Number(s): AD-A-218005/7/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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