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    Preface

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    Preface to the refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies, DALT 2010, held in Toronto, Canada, on May 10, 2010

    Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies VIII

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    This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies, DALT 2010, held in Toronto, Canada, on May 10, 2010, as a satellite workshop of the 9th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2010. The 7 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited lectures were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from 24 initial submissions. DALT aims to make formal methods and declarative technologies and approaches available to and understood by a broader segment of the multi-agent research community; the papers are organized in topical sections on BDI rational agents, communication, coordination and negotiation, as well as social aspects and control systems

    Automatic Synthesis of a Global Behavior from Multiple Distributed Behaviors

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    We consider the problem of synthesizing a team of local behavior controllers to realize a fully controllable target behavior from a set of available partially controllable behaviors that execute distributively within a shared partially predictable, but fully observable, environment. Available behaviors stand for existing distributed components and are represented with (finite) nondeterministic transition systems. The target behavior is assumed to be fully deterministic and stands for the collective behavior that the system as a whole needs to guarantee. We formally define the problem within a general framework, characterize its computational complexity, and propose techniques to actually generate a solution. Also, we investigate the relationship between the distributed solutions and the centralized ones, in which a single global controller is conceivable. Copyright © 2007, American Association for Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved
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