{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"The Use of Meta-level Information in Learning Situation-Specific Coordination","authors":[{"name":"M. V. Nagendra Prasad","slug":"m-v-nagendra-prasad","given":"M. V. Nagendra","family":"Prasad","affiliation":""},{"name":"Victor R. Lesser","slug":"victor-r-lesser","given":"Victor R.","family":"Lesser","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"Achieving effective cooperation in a multi-agent system is a difficult problem for a number of reasons such as limited and possibly out-dated views of activities of other agents and uncertainty about the outcomes of interacting non-local tasks. In this paper, we present a learning algorithm that endows agents with the capability to choose the appropriate coordination algorithm from a set of available coordination algorithms based on meta-level information about their problem solving situations. We present empirical results that strongly indicate the effectiveness of the learning algorithm.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/94","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/0094.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/94.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/bibtex/94","volume":{"slug":"1997","title":"Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1997","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/","year":1997,"location":"Nagoya, Japan","dates":"","editors":"Martha E. Pollack","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Distributed Artificial Intelligence","track":"Distributed Artificial Intelligence","number":94,"pages":{"first":640,"last":645},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}