Affiliations: National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan. E-mails: {hosobe, ksatoh}@nii.ac.jp | Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom. E-mails: {jm103, ar3, kb}@doc.ic.ac.uk
Note: [] Corresponding author: Hiroshi Hosobe, National Institute of Informatics, 2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8430, Japan.
Abstract: Speculative computation is an effective means for solving problems with incomplete information in multi-agent systems. It allows such a system to compute tentative solutions by using default knowledge about agents even if communications between agents are delayed or fail. Previously we have proposed a logical framework for speculative constraint processing for master–slave multi-agent systems. In this paper, we extend the framework to support more general multi-agent systems that are hierarchically structured. We provide an operational model for the framework and present a prototype implementation of the model.
