The RETSINA Multiagnet System: Towards Integrating Planning, Execution and Information Gathering.
Katia P. Sycara, Anandeep S. Pannu · 1998
This video presentation describes the RETSINA (Reusable Task Structure Based Intelligent Network Agents) framework, explicates the unifying organizational and architectural ideas and demonstrates their applicability to various dynamic domains (e.g. Financial Portfolio Management, Distributed Calendar Scheduling, Satellite Visibility Tracking). The architecture of a single agent as well as the coordination strategies that the agents use are presented in some detail , RETSINA is a flexible framework that enables agents to dynamically form agent teams “on-demand” to solve a problem, taking into consideration and adapting to-the user, task and situation, For example, REISINA agents monitor sources of stock information, financial news, historical data, EDGAR data (EDGAR is the database that keeps annual and quarterly company earnings reports) and notify the user of relevant changes, In addition, the agents collaborate to integrate data from these different sources. Moreover, they provide advice to the user regarding prospective stocks and act on a user’s behalf performing stock buying and selling transactions, The RETSINA group believes that the next generation of agent technology will heavily reIy on multiple adaptive coordinating agents that support users not only in gatbering information but also in making decisions, thus providing advantages far beyond conventional agent technology. This video presents the lessons learned in a wide variety of domains,