PhD thesis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, May 1994. In Section 3, we relate our work to that of other researchers. Requirements for knowledge consistency are discussed in Section 4. Section 5 gives a brief description of the negotiated search paradigm and its realization in the TEAM framework. Section 6 presents the general concept of negotiated search strategies, defines a specific strategy called linearcompromise, and compares the performance of the system with and without linear compromise.
Agents are distinct and independent entities that communicate through a shared memory.
To enable this level of agent autonomy, information in the system is partitioned in layers of abstraction. Distributed Search and Conflict Management among Heterogeneous Reusable Agents . Ph.D. thesis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, May 1994. Also available as Technical Report 94-32, Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Updating the Multiagent TEAM Research Software One of our original objectives was to update an existing version of TEAM, an agent based academic research framework, for use in Phase II research.