Cooperative Case Bartering for Case-Based Reasoning Agents

Collaborative Learning Agents

Volume

Papers from the 2002 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

Multiagent systems offer a new paradigm to organize AI Applications. We focus on the application of Case-Based Reasoning to Muitiagent systems. CBR offers the individual agents the capability of autonomously learn from experience. In this paper we present a framework for collaboration among agents that use CBR. We present explicit strategies for case bartering in order improve individual case bases and reduce bias is the ease'bases. We also present empirical results illustrating the robustness of the case bartering process for several configurations of the multiagant system.