Matching Conflicts:Functional Validation of Agents

George Cybenko and Guofei Jiang

Thayer School of Engineering

Dartmouth College

18th July,1999, AAAIí99

Orlando, Florida

Acknowledgements:

This work was partially supported by AFOSR grants F49620-97-1-0382, NSF grant CCR-9813744 and DARPA contract F30602-98-2-0107.

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Well, Today, what Iím going to talk is about ìmatching conflicts : Functional validation of agents. ì The work was partially supported by AFOSR, NSF and

DARPA.

In most multiagent systems, A broker or matchmaker is used to identify and locate agent that can provide specific services. And basically These system use keywords or ontologies to specify the agentís service.

However, we think keywords and ontologies can not be defined precisely enough to make the brokering or matchmaking among agents sufficiently

robust in a truly distributed, heterogeneous , multiagent computing environments.

So matching conflicts exists between client agentsí requested functionality and a server agentís real functionality. So Iím going to talk about how we are trying to use a new form of interagent communication named ìfunctional validationî to solve this

Matching Conflicts: Functional Validation of Agents