When Agents Communicate Hypotheses in Critical Situations

Bourgne, Gauvain; Maudet, Nicolas; Pinson, Suzanne

Bourgne, Gauvain; Maudet, Nicolas; Pinson, Suzanne (2006), When Agents Communicate Hypotheses in Critical Situations, in Matteo Baldoni, Ulle Endriss, Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies IV, Springer : Berlin Heidelberg, p. 89-104. 10.1007/11961536_7

Type

Communication / Conférence

Date

2006

Conference title

Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies IV

Conference date

2006

Conference city

Hakodate

Conference country

JAPAN

Book title

Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies IV

Book author

Matteo Baldoni, Ulle Endriss

Publisher

Springer

Published in

Berlin Heidelberg

ISBN

978-3-540-68959-1

Pages

89-104

Abstract (EN)

This paper discusses the problem of efficient propagation of uncertain information in dynamic environments and critical situations. When a number of (distributed) agents have only partial access to information, the explanation(s) and conclusion(s) they can draw from their observations are inevitably uncertain. In this context, the efficient propagation of information is concerned with two interrelated aspects: spreading the information as quickly as possible, and refining the hypotheses at the same time. We describe a formal framework designed to investigate this class of problem, and we report on preliminary results and experiments using the described theory.

Subjects / Keywords

efficient propagation; uncertain information; Hypotheses in Critical Situations