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Autonomous agents in a multi-agent system coordinate to achieve their goals. However, in a partially observable world, current multi-agent systems are often less effective in achieving their goals. In much part, this limitation is due to an agent's lack of reasoning about other agents and their mental states. Another factor is the agent's inability to share required knowledge with other agents and the lack of explanations in justifying the reasons behind the goal. This research addresses these problems by presenting a general approach for agent goal management in unexpected situations. In this approach, an agent applies three main concepts: goal reasoning - to determine what goals to pursue and share; theory of mind - to select an agent(s) for goal delegation; explanation - to justify to the selected agent(s) the reasons behind the delegated goal.Our approach presents several algorithms required for goal management in multi-agent systems. We demonstrate that these algorithms will help agents in a multi-agent context better manage their goals and improve their performance. In addition, we evaluate the performance of our multi-agent system in a marine life survey domain and a rover domain. Finally, we compare our work to different multi-agent systems and present empirical results that support our claim. |
