Abstract: | In an environment with limited resources, the agents must coordinate their activity with the others in order to follow their own interests or to satisfy the group objectives. The actions of agents in a multiagent system must be coordinated because dependencies exist between agent actions, because global constraints must be respected, and no agent has the capability, resources or information needed to reach its goal within the system. Therefore, it is necessary for the agents to cooperate and coordinate their actions in order to properly use the system resources. In this paper, we present a simulation of a multiagent system used for task allocation through contract nets, in a situated environment. The evolution of the system is analyzed concerning resources and agent capabilities, as well as the rate of task solving. |
