Supporting agent-oriented designs with models of macroscopic system behavior

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Supporting agent-oriented designs with models of macroscopic system behavior

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International Conference on Autonomous Agents archive
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2 table of contents

Budapest, Hungary

SESSION: Comprehensive/cross-cutting table of contents

Pages 1355-1356

Year of Publication: 2009

ISBN:978-0-9817381-7-8

Authors

Jan Sudeikat	Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany
Wolfgang Renz	Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

Sponsors

: The Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents
Microsoft Research : Microsoft Research
: Whitestein Technologies
: European Office of Aerospace Research and Development, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, United States Air Force Research Laboratory
: Drexel University
: Wiley -- Blackwell Ltd

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International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems Richland, SC

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The purposeful development of MAS, particularly when addressing complex, decentralized application architectures, demands the ability to anticipate the effects of agent coaction. Sophisticated design and modeling tools support the development of individual agent models and their arrangement in organizational structures. However, only limited support is available to pre-estimate the qualitative, macroscopic system properties that rise from agent (inter-)action. Here, we propose a systemic modeling level that allows to describe the qualitative macroscopic dynamics of MAS by modeling the impact of exhibiting agent behaviors on parts of the agent population as well as environment elements. We discuss the systematic derivation of these models from established design models/notations and outline how these models can be used to anticipate the qualitative dynamics of MAS as well as to validate MAS implementations.

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