From crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!rochester!udel!gatech!rpi!ghost.dsi.unimi.it!univ-lyon1.fr!scsing.switch.ch!bernina!neptune!perrocho Tue Feb 16 14:52:36 EST 1993 Article: 15661 of comp.ai Xref: crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai:15661 comp.ai.shells:979 Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.shells Path: crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!rochester!udel!gatech!rpi!ghost.dsi.unimi.it!univ-lyon1.fr!scsing.switch.ch!bernina!neptune!perrocho From: perrocho@inf.ethz.ch (Louis Perrochon) Subject: Summary of my request on Distributed AI work Message-ID: <1993Feb16.101938.5699@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> Sender: news@neptune.inf.ethz.ch (Mr News) Nntp-Posting-Host: orion-gw.inf.ethz.ch Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1993 10:19:38 GMT Lines: 165 Good Morning Everybody Here is the proposed summary of the responses to my question regarding distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) on comp.ai and comp.ai.shells. It also has been included in the DAI-List Digest 106. (This seems to be a periodic mailing in the DAI-mailing list, including also CFP for DAI conferences, book reviews, and similiar stuff, see below) I have received more than 20 responses with enough hints to keep me working for some time. I fetched several kilograms of paper in our library last week. Thanks to everybody who contributed. Those who offered me further information may get some specific questions later, when I read some of the recomended stuff. Please don't feel insulted, if you are not mentioned in this posting, or if the provided information is not correct. I'm sorry, this took so long. Unfortunately other things are begging to be done. To those of you who were interested in my own work in this area, I have to tell you, there is none (not yet?). That's why I wanted to find out, what has been done so far. Louis 0 / -X--------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 \ DAI - Information sources ========================= This reflects only answers I got by email, I haven't checked out the facts. It is not meant to be complete. Question: >I'm looking for research work on distributed AI. Does anyone knows about >work done in the following areas: > >1. Interoperating of multiple (possibly heterogeneous) expert systems. > >2. Dealing with inconsistencies among different expert systems, if theyare >connected together to give one advice. > >Imagine 10surgeon-expert-systems discussing the best way to fix a broken leg. > >Anyhints are welcome (other newsgroup to post, papers, conferences, books, >email addresses of authors, ...) > >Please answer via email. I will forward/repost a summary if requested. > >Louis > Answers: Literature: ---------- -Alan H. Bond and Les Gasser. Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence. Morgan Kauffman, San Mateo,k CA, 1988. This one was mentioned almost by everybody. -IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol 11, No. 1, Jan 1981 (Special Issue on DAI) -IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol 21, No. 6, Nov/Dez 1991 (Special Issue on DAI---10 years later) -The handbook of AI volume 4 1989, IEEE Systems, man, and Cybernetics-17(5) 1987 -Kluwer Academic's AI Review 6(1), 1992 -Wittig, Thies (Ed.): ARCHON, an architecture for multi-agent systems. New York etc.: Ellis Horwood 1992 Proceedings of the DAI workshop. -M. Huhns, ed. Distributed Artificial Intelligence. Morgan Kauffman, 1987 -L. Gasser and M. Huhns, eds. Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Vol II. Morgan Kauffman, 1989 Proceedings of the MAAMAW (see below) Workshop. -Y. Demazeau, ed. Decentralized AI 1 Elsevier North-Holland, 1990 -Y. Demazeau and J-P. Muller, eds. Decentralized AI 3 Elsevier North-Holland, 1991 -E. Werner and Y. Demazeau, eds. Decentralized AI 3 Elsevier North-Holland, 1992 The next workshop will be held at Neuchatel, Switzerland in August 1993, CFP is out, deadline is April 23., 1993. Contact maamwa@info.unine.ch for further information. IJCAI-93 Workshop on "Computational Models of Conflict Management in Cooperative Problem Solving" to be held in France this year. (April?) Articels -"Multi-Domain expert systems in Expert Systems", May 1991, Vol.8, No 2 -"Hyperintelligence, the next frontier" in CACM, March 1990, Vol 33, No 3. (Don't know the autor(s)) Mailing Lists ------------ -DAI-List@mcc.com, Michael Huhns, subscribe to DAI-List-Request@mcc.com -maamaw@lifia.imag.fr, Yves Demazeau, subscribe to demazeau@lifia.imag.fr (Modelling autonomous agents in a multi-agent world). Dedicated to the field of Multi-Agent Systems, including paradigms, their development, application and evaluation. -Distibuted-ai discussion list in UK. To subscribe send email to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk with one line command "subscribe distributed-ai FIRST-NAM LAST NAME" -ckbs@cs.keele.ac.uk, a cooperating knowledge based system special interest group. -kuf@dfki.uni-sb.de, a german mailing list, I don't know if all the submissions are in german. Persons working in the Area with recomended (to me) publications. ----------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE DON'T FLOOD THEIR MAILBOXES. They will probably never talk to me again if you do that. I'm sure that they are willing to help you, if you have specific questions. -The University of Massachusetts seems to focus research in this topic. I got a couple of answers from people studying and working there. They research on DAI, Blackboard Systems, multiagent conflict negotiation. You could contact -Susan Lander, lander@cs.umass.edu many publications -Victor Lesser, lesser@cs.umass.edu, Dan Corkill, Norm Carver, carver@cs.umass.edu -Mark Klein (Boeing Computer Science) et al. Conflict resolution in Cooperative DesignArtificial Intelligence in Engineering, Vol 4, No. 4, 1989 pp. 168-180 -Keith Werkman (IBM) et al. Design and Fabrication problem Solving through Cooperative Agents, NSF-ERC-ATLSS Technical Report 90-05, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, 1990 -Ed Durfee at University of Michigan "Partial global Planning: A coordination Framework for multiple hypothesis formation", IEEE Transaction on systems, man and cybernetics (Sept/Oct 1991). Together with Victor Lesser. -B. Chandraskekeran (The Ohio State University, IEEE Expert Editor-in-Chief) Decomposition of Domain Knowledge into Knowledge Source: The MDX Approach, Fourth National Conference of Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, Canada -Zhang, C. PhD Thesis and Paper on "HECODES: A framework for heterogeneous Cooperative Distributed Expert Systems". Paper in International Journal of Data Knowledge Engineering, Vol 6, No 3, 1991, pp 251-273 -Bruce Abramson (bda@cs.usc.edu) and Dan O'Leary (oleary@mizar.usc.edu) used probabilites in working on these problems. ------------------------------------------------------------- Louis Perrochon ++41 254 7282 perrochon@inf.ethz.ch Institut fur Informationssysteme ETH Zurich ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- Louis Perrochon ++41 254 7282 perrochon@inf.ethz.ch Institut fur Informationssysteme ETH Zurich ------------------------------------------------------------- -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Louis Perrochon, Institut fuer Informationssysteme, Zurich, Switzerland | | voice: ++1 254 7282 email: perrochon@inf.ethz.ch | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+