NDLI: Multiagent systems and semantic services for very large-scale participatory design

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Huhns, M.N.
Copyright Year	2009
Description	Author affiliation: University of South Carolina, USA (Huhns, M.N.)
Abstract	There are a number of important societal problems that resist conventional, i.e., centralized, solutions. The problems affect the management of our economic systems, climate, energy systems, transportation systems, telecommunication systems, and infrastructure. They are characterized as being distributed and many-faceted, with a large number of interdependent components. For example, the routes of trains and automobile traffic are designed centrally and statically by transportation engineers, rather than designed in real time by the passengers being transported. Allowing the passengers to be responsible for the transportation system constitutes a form of design that is: • Large-scale, because of the size of the system being designed and the number of designers • Spatially distributed, in terms of both the system and the designers • Temporally distributed, because the design of the system evolves over time and the designers interact with it over a long time period • Participatory, although not necessarily cooperative. There are many similar examples where design is typically done in a centralized manner, but could be done much better in a distributed manner. How can this sort of design be supported? It requires a form of consensus, semantic mediation, and intelligent distributed support. In this talk I will describe how large-scale distributed design can be done with the aid of multiagent systems that produce consensus.
Starting Page	2
Ending Page	2
File Size	184690
Page Count	1
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424435340
DOI	10.1109/CSCWD.2009.4968023
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2009-04-22
Publisher Place	Chile
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Multiagent systems Large-scale systems Resists Energy management Power generation economics Automobiles Telecommunication traffic Rail transportation Automotive engineering Design engineering
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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