The Impact of Heterogeneity on Cooperating Agents
Cristina Roda, Nicholas R. Jennings, Ebrahim H. Mamdani · ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) · 1991
The majority of previous work in Distributed AI (DAI) has concentrated on cooperation between similar agents. Such agents typically have homogeneous structures (e.g. BEINGS [Lenat75] or DVMT [Lesser&80]), are capable of carrying out identical tasks (eg Air Traffic Control [Cammarata&83]) or are assumed to have identical domains of discourse. However such