Autonomous Agents Coordination: Action Languages meet CLP(FD) and Linda

Representing and reasoning in multi-agent domains are two of the most active research areas in multi-agent system (MAS) research. The literature in this area is extensive, and it provides a plethora of logics for representing and reasoning about various aspects of MAS domains, e.g., [20, 14, 24, 22, 12]. A large number of the logics proposed in the literature have been designed to specifically focus on particular aspects of the problem of modeling MAS, often justified by a specific application scenario. This makes them suitable to address specific subsets of the general features required to model real-world MAS domains. The task of generalizing some of these existing proposals to create a uniform and comprehensive framework for modeling several different aspects of MAS domains is an open problem. Although we do not dispute the possibility of extending several of these existing proposals in various directions, the task does not seem easy. Similarly, a variety of multi-agent programming platforms have been proposed, mostly in the style of multi-agent programming languages, like Jason [3], ConGolog [9], 3APL [7], GOAL [8], but with limited planning capabilities. Our effort in this paper is focused on the development of a novel action language for multi-agent systems.