Paper:
Language: English:

ViSe2 - An Agent-Based Expert Consulting System with Efficient Cooperation

Cheng-Gang Bian, Wen Cao and Gunnar Hartvigsen

Department of Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Tromso, Norway

Received: October 10, 1997

Accepted: January 25, 1998

Keywords: Software agent, Expert system, Cooperation, Distributed artificial intelligence

Journal ref: Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, Vol.2, No.3 pp. 104-110, 1998

Abstract

ViSe2 l is an expert consulting system which employs software agents to manage distributed knowledge sources. These individual software agents solve users\' problems either by themselves or via cooperation. The efficiency of cooperation plays a serious role in Distributed Problem Solving (^DPS) and Multi-Agent Systems (^MAS). We have focused on the development of a twin-base approach for agents to model the capabilities of each other, and thus achieve efficient cooperation. The current version of the ^ViSe2 implementation is an experimental model of an agent-based expert system. Compared with other cooperation approaches in Distributed Artificial Intelligence (^DAI) area, the results received so far indicate that the ^ViSe2 agents serve their users in an efficient cooperation manner.

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