Social Coordination in Architecture for Physically-Grounding Agents
Koichi Kurumatani · 2002
We propose a social coordination mechanism that is realized in architecture for physically-grounding agents and supports mass-users' decision making in daily lives. By social coordination, we mean mutual concession by automatic negotiation of software agents, rather than verbal and explicit communication directly done by human users. One of prerequisite infrastructures for such electronic negotiation mechanism is software agent architecture that is physically embedded in social environment, by which software agents can trace users' moving history, understand their intention and preference, and negotiate each other, with protecting users' privacy using temporal identifiers. The functionality of social coordination is realized in such agent architecture, where three kinds of agents work cooperatively, i.e., user-agent which serves as proxy of user, social coordinator agent, and spatio-temporal resource managing agent. We also propose some basic mechanisms of social coordination functionality based on stochastic distribution and market mechanism.