Dealing with conflicts and failure in multi-agent systems
Friday, 24th September 1999
0930 - 1100
Rooms 1 & 2, 7th floor
Storey Hall, RMIT
Swanston Street, Melbourne.
Abstract:
Real world multi-agent systems, such as dMARS, are concurrent, distributed
and situated. In common with any concurrent system there are issues
involving resource conflicts and failure.
In this talk I will discuss why agent based systems differ from classical
concurrent systems and what issues arise in dealing with conflicts and
failure in the context of multi-agent systems.
Biosketch:
Dr. Michael Winikoff (web,
email)
is a research fellow at RMIT University. He obtained his PhD at Melbourne
University in 1997 and has since spent a year and a half working at Melbourne
University and a year working at the Institute for Software Research in
West Virginia. Michael's interests involve notations and methods
for constructing software, including declarative programming languages,
formal methods, and the applications of logic (especially linear logic)
in computer science.