MAP-POP

MAP-POP is our initial approach to Cooperative MAP. Agents jointly explore a plan-space search tree by applying a refinement planning search scheme. Each agent has an integrated backwards-chaining POP to build refinement plans using standard POP heuristic function.

Agents occlude the private data of the plans, sharing only the information of the plans that is relevant to the other agents. This initial version of our Cooperative MAP system performs an incomplete search of the plan space.

Source code of MAP-POP:

The source code of the standalone MAP-POP platform is available in the following link: MAP.jar

This tool runs on the Magentix 2 multi-agent platform. The following requirements are needed in order to execute the jar file:

  • The file magentix2-1.0-jar-with-dependencies.zip, which is distributed with Magentix 2, should be placed in the same folder as the jar file.
  • A Qpid broker of the Magentix 2 platform must be running in a computer accessible on the network.
Relevant papers:

Alejandro Torreño, Eva Onaindia, Óscar Sapena
A Flexible Coupling Approach to Multi-Agent Planning under Incomplete Information
Knowledge and Information Systems, Vol. 38(1), pp. 141-178, (2014)

Alejandro Torreño, Eva Onaindia, Óscar Sapena
An Approach to Multi-Agent Planning with Incomplete Information
20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2012), pp. 762-767, (2012)