Adaptive real-time planning for multimedia communication services by multiagent system

Recent development of multimedia services with various network terminals ha s created new problems. One of them is to select a service nearest to a cus tomer's request and to execute it in real time. This paper proposes an adap tive planning system which produces plans to control a network and terminal applications for a customer's directional request, and executes them adapt ively and in real time by using multiple agents which generate a reactive p lan and a deliberate plan, respectively. The effectiveness of the proposed system has been confirmed by using its prototype. (C) 2000 Scripta Technica .