Primary and secondary diagnosis of multi-agent plan execution

Femke de Jonge, Nico Roos and Cees Witteveen

From the issue entitled "Special issue on the Fourth German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies (MATES); Guest Editors: Klaus Fischer, Ingo Timm, Elisabeth André"

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Abstract

Diagnosis of plan failures is an important subject in both single- and multi-agent planning. Plan diagnosis can be used to deal with plan failures in three ways: (i) to provide information necessary for the adjustment of the current plan or for the development of a new plan, (ii) to point out which equipment and/or agents should be repaired or adjusted to avoid further violation of the plan execution, and (iii) to identify the agents responsible for plan-execution failures. We introduce two general types of plan diagnosis: primary plan diagnosis identifying the incorrect or failed execution of actions, and secondary plan diagnosis that identifies the underlying causes of the faulty actions. Furthermore, three special cases of secondary plan diagnosis are distinguished, namely agent diagnosis, equipment diagnosis and environment diagnosis.

Keywords  Diagnosis - Planning - Multi-agent systems

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