Team Formation Strategies and Tactical Planning for Cooperative Distributed Multi-Agent Systems

1.Introduction ............................... 1

2.Theoretical Background ......................... 5

2.1.Nin e Men‟s Morris ..................... 5

2.2.Multi-Agent Systems .................... 8

2.3.Rational Agents ................ 11

2.4.Coordination .................... 14

2.5.Cooperation ......................... 17
 
3.Analysis and Design .......... 20

3.1.Use Cases ........................ 21

3.2.Agent Types Identification .................... 22

3.3.Responsibilities Identification ......... 23

3.4.Acquaintances Identification .............. 25

3.5.Interactions Specification .................. 26

3.6.Agent-User Interactions ............ 28

3.7.Internal Agent Behaviours .............. 29

3.8.Defining an Ontology ..................... 30

4.Implementation ............... 32

4.1.Integrated Development Environment ...................... 32

4.2.General description ....................... 33

4.3.Agents‟ Activity Monitoring .......... 38

4.4.The Graphical User Interface ................. 39

5.Testing ....................... 41

5.1.Configuration & Installation ......... 41

5.2.Launching the Multi-Agent System ........ 42


5.3.Multi-Agent System Utilization ............... 44

5.4.Testing & Experimental Results ............. 44

6.Conclusions .......................... 46

Bibliography ............................ 47
 
Annexes .............................. 49

Class Diagrams ........................ 49

Source Code ................ 59