Multiagent System Engineering: The Coordination Viewpoint
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Multiagent systems are more and more becoming an ubiquitous paradigm for the design and implementation of complex software applications. Even though somehow blurred throughout the vast literature on multiagent systems, the notion of agent can be characterised by few fundamental key-points: (i) autonomy, (ii) interaction, and (iii) task. In other words, an agent may be thought as an autonomous software component which interacts with its environment in order to achieve its tasks. Autonomy guarantees that an agent will pursue its goals proactively, so as to accomplish its tasks. Accordingly, the process of designing a multiagent system is typically conceived as picking out the multiplicity of tasks which have to be accomplished in order to achieve the intended multiagent system’s goal(s), and delegating them to the agent’s responsibility. However, this view basically neglects interaction in the design phase, and leads to what we call agent-oriented engineering of multi-agent systems, typically endorsed by the literature on agent languages and architectures. There, the focus is on intra-agent aspects, such as agent’s internal structure, its view of the world, its beliefs, desires and intentions, and so on.
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تاریخ انتشار 1999