Coffey, Simon; Gaertner, Dorian Implementing pheromone-based, negotiating forager agents. (English) Zbl 1236.68254 Toni, Francesca (ed.) et al., Computational logic in multi-agent systems. 6th international workshop, CLIMA VI, London, UK, June 27–29, 2005. Revised selected and invited papers. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 3-540-33996-5/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3900. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 385-395 (2006). Summary: We describe an implementation of distributed, multi-threaded BDI-style agents cooperating efficiently in a foraging scenario. Using ant-style pheromone trails as the basis for a pseudo-random walk procedure, they explore the world uniformly and negotiate to allocate collection and delivery tasks. Global information is disseminated via a publish/subscribe mechanism. The system is implemented using the concurrent logic programming language Qu-Prolog.For the entire collection see [Zbl 1096.68007]. MSC: 68T42 Agent technology and artificial intelligence 68N17 Logic programming 68T27 Logic in artificial intelligence Software:Qu-Prolog PDF BibTeX XML Cite \textit{S. Coffey} and \textit{D. Gaertner}, Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 3900, 385--395 (2006; Zbl 1236.68254) Full Text: DOI