Plan Management Capabilities for Autonomous Agents: Extending the Basic Mechanisms
Martha E. Pollack · 2002
Software agents can assist a human user in overseeing, managing and coordinating large and potentially complex sets of plans. Such agents are potentially of great value in both military and civilian applications. This report addresses plan management software agent technology. There were three main goals in the research: 1. Design, implementation, and experimental analysis of algorithms for supporting plan management capabilities in agent software systems. 2. Adaptation of the plan management agents into a system that can interact with the agent sandbox, or "grid", developed in the DARPA CoABS program for agent registry, search, and interaction. 3. Development of initial techniques for using the plan management agent algorithms to support outsourcing of tasks in agent communities,