%0 Conference Paper %1 saur2014magic %A Saur, Daniel %A Haque, Tareq Rezaul %A Herzog, Ralf %A Geihs, Kurt %B 12th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space %C Montreal %D 2014 %K ALICA VS %T MAGiC : Multi-Agent Planning using Grid Computing concepts %X This paper presents a distributed planning approach which is able to produce a plan with minimum communication among the agents of the team. We developed a fusion planner which considers the limitations of distributed and centralized planning. Principally, a central agent distributes tasks among multiple agents to solve a problem in reduced search space compared to centralized planner. Moreover, the designed planner requires lesser communication than a distributed planner among multiple agents. We perform evaluation on NASA's Mars Rover domain and compare the proposed planner with similar ones. A general conclusion is that the planning process for a team of agents can be improved compared to the state of the art approaches by up to 46.4% faster and 98.2% lesser messages.

@inproceedings{saur2014magic, abstract = {This paper presents a distributed planning approach which is able to produce a plan with minimum communication among the agents of the team. We developed a fusion planner which considers the limitations of distributed and centralized planning. Principally, a central agent distributes tasks among multiple agents to solve a problem in reduced search space compared to centralized planner. Moreover, the designed planner requires lesser communication than a distributed planner among multiple agents. We perform evaluation on NASA's Mars Rover domain and compare the proposed planner with similar ones. A general conclusion is that the planning process for a team of agents can be improved compared to the state of the art approaches by up to 46.4% faster and 98.2% lesser messages.}, added-at = {2014-06-11T12:41:41.000+0200}, address = {Montreal}, author = {Saur, Daniel and Haque, Tareq Rezaul and Herzog, Ralf and Geihs, Kurt}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2a50266a69a4854de3ad30492a789a284/vskassel}, booktitle = {12th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space }, interhash = {bb6273757be65d0644b5b51cfbcd55b3}, intrahash = {a50266a69a4854de3ad30492a789a284}, keywords = {ALICA VS}, timestamp = {2015-09-10T11:32:57.000+0200}, title = {MAGiC : Multi-Agent Planning using Grid Computing concepts}, year = 2014 }