Agent Models in Service of Information Dissemination in Inaccessible Cooperative Multiagent Systems

An agent is often required to act based on the information its environment or of other agents. It is possible that such information is not available to the agent even though another agent might have such information. Hence, a difficulty is knowing which of the other agents to contact for a piece of information that is required. We present a solution to this problem by using agent models that estimate the knowledge of other agents in conjunction with the predictive memory model of Bowling et al [1] to pro-actively send gossip to other agents. Empirical evidence observed from experiments suggest that a proactive approach to information sharing can indeed be effective in making the relevant information available to the agents under certain assumptions.