Lilies–A Framework for Building Multiple Agents for Adaptive Planning

Lessons Learned from Implemented Software Architectures for Physical Agents

Volume

Papers from the 1995 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

Lilies (Localisation and InterLeaving stragIES) was developed to deal with a forest fire fighting planning environment. The apphcation required adaptive planning in a reactive and generative environment. To model the application, it was necessary for multiple agents to be developed which added the usual communication [15, 19] issues. The planning environment needed to deal with both reactive and generative problems. To provide a unified and adaptative environment we used reflection [20, 13, 4, 18]. Lilies provides a framework which develops and extends the taxonomy of actions [16] and the interleaving [1] for planning environments. To deal with the planning in a reactive and generative environment, and having only partial information required a system which could evaluate, interleave and adapt on both single and multiple agent(s) model. this paper we explain why and how we developed Lilies, a system which provides agents with a means of inspection and introspection [4].