XX International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC'00)
A Paraconsistent System of Autonomous Agents for Brazilian Bank Check Treatment
Santiago, Chile
November 16-November 18
ISBN: 0-7695-0810-3
B.C. Avila, Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Parana, Brazil
This work is part of the Multicheck Project that defines the architecture of autonomous agents for the automatic treatment of handwritten Brazilian bank checks. The competence of these agents is implemented in two layers. The first corresponds to pattern recognition algorithms directly applied to image segments. The second one corresponds to reasoning mechanisms applied to the information from the first layer, either to validate or to interpret it. The interpretation process also involves information obtained from other agents. This information can present inconsistencies. This problem is treated properly and naturally through the concepts and operators of paraconsistent logic. This paper focuses on the second layer, on task distribution problems and on communication between agents. The first layer information was obtained through a simulated database.
Index Terms:
handwriting recognition; multi-agent systems; image segmentation; formal logic; cheque processing; software agents; paraconsistent system; autonomous agents; Brazilian bank check treatment; handwritten Brazilian bank checks; reasoning mechanisms; paraconsistent logic; task distribution problems; communication between agents
Citation:
E.S. Angelotti, E.E. Scalabrin, B.C. Avila, F. Bortolozzi, "A Paraconsistent System of Autonomous Agents for Brazilian Bank Check Treatment," sccc, pp.89, XX International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC'00), 2000