The MADLA planner: Multi-agent planning by combination of distributed and local heuristic search

摘要

Real world applications often require cooperation of multiple independent entities. Classical planning is a well established technique solving various challenging problems such as logistic planning, factory process planning, military mission planning and high-level planning for robots. Multi-agent planning aims at solving similar problems in the presence of multiple independent entities (agents). Even though such entities might want to cooperate in order to fulfill a common goal, they may want to keep their internal information and processes private. In such case, we talk about privacy-preserving multi-agent planning.