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Vol.8, No.2, May 2019. ISSN: 2217-8309 eISSN: 2217-8333
TEM Journal
TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION, MANAGEMENT, INFORMATICS Association for Information Communication Technology Education and Science |
Prediction Process in Multi-Agent System Online Monitoring: Centralized and Distributed Approaches
Zina Houhamdi
© 2019 Zina Houhamdi, published by UIKTEN. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License. (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Citation Information: TEM Journal. Volume 8, Issue 2, Pages 364-371, ISSN 2217-8309, DOI: 10.18421/TEM82-07, May 2019.
Received: 18 February 2019.
Abstract:
This paper discusses the prediction process, which is the main step of the online monitoring process for a multi-agent plan. The monitoring process uses a relational model to estimate the internal status of the system, which is dynamic (changes over time). Unfortunately, the agents have partial observability of the environment; thus, the monitoring process cannot accurately determine the system status (known in the literature as belief state) at any instant. The prediction process is composed of two stages: a simulation stage (prediction of all possible system states at the succeeding time) and a clipping stage (elimination of states that are incompatible with the observations or with the constraints from predicted system states).
Keywords – Multi-Agent Monitoring, Multi-Agent Plan, Belief State, Prediction Process. |
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