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02090873 P\v echou\v cek, Michal \v St\v ep\'ankov\'a, Olga Ma\v r\'\i k, Vladim\'\i r B\'arta, Jaroslav Abstract architecture for meta-reasoning in multi-agent systems. Ma\v r\'\i k, Vladim\'\i r (ed.) et al., Multi-agent systems and applications III. 3rd international Central and Eastern European conference on multi-agent systems, CEEMAS 2003, Prague, Czech Republic, June 16--18, 2003. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 3-540-40450-3/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2691; Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 84-99 (2003). 2003 Berlin: Springer EN

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Summary: Agent's meta-reasoning is a computational process that implements agent's capability to reason on a higher level about another agents or a community of agents. There is a potential for meta-reasoning in multi-agent systems. Meta-reasoning can be used for reconstructing agents' private knowledge, their mental states and for prediction of their future courses of action. Meta-agents should have the capability to reason about incomplete or imprecise information. Unlike the ordinary agents, the meta-agent may contemplate about the community of agents as a whole and is expected to contribute to agent's operation efficiency improvement. This contribution suggests a theoretical specification of an abstract reasoning and knowledge representation architecture for the meta-reasoning agents and discusses/categorizes the related computational processes.