Even if in literature the role of environment in designing and engineering Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) has been largely acknowledged and explored, no abstract formal model have been developed so far to rigorously define the main features of environment programming in the context of MAS programming, in particular to be integrated and exploited with existing agent programming languages/platforms and related formalisations. Accordingly, in this paper we present a formalisation of a general-purpose model for environment programming, based on the notion of artifact as introduced in the A&A metamodel and implemented by the CArtAgO framework. Even if based on the A&A meta-model, we argue that the model can be useful to understand and analyse aspects that are important - more generally - for any general-purpose environment model used in MAS programming.
Formalising the Environment in MAS Programming: A Formal Model for Artifact-Based Environments / A. Ricci; M. Viroli; M. Piunti. - STAMPA. - (2010), pp. 133-150. (Intervento presentato al convegno 7th International Workshop, ProMAS 2009 tenutosi a Budapest nel 10-15 maggio 2009) [10.1007/978-3-642-14843-9_9].
Formalising the Environment in MAS Programming: A Formal Model for Artifact-Based Environments
RICCI, ALESSANDRO;VIROLI, MIRKO;
2010
Abstract
Even if in literature the role of environment in designing and engineering Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) has been largely acknowledged and explored, no abstract formal model have been developed so far to rigorously define the main features of environment programming in the context of MAS programming, in particular to be integrated and exploited with existing agent programming languages/platforms and related formalisations. Accordingly, in this paper we present a formalisation of a general-purpose model for environment programming, based on the notion of artifact as introduced in the A&A metamodel and implemented by the CArtAgO framework. Even if based on the A&A meta-model, we argue that the model can be useful to understand and analyse aspects that are important - more generally - for any general-purpose environment model used in MAS programming.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
