In this paper we evaluate transition systems as a tool for providing a rule-based specification of the operational aspects of autonomous agents. By our technique, different aspects of an agent can be analyzed and designed in a loosely coupled way, enabling the possibility of studying their properties in isolation. We take as a use case the Parade framework for building intelligent agents, which leverages a FIPA-like ACL semantics to support semantic interoperability. Our grey-boxing technique is exploited to provide a specification where aspects related to the ACL, the adopted ontology, the agent social role, and the other agent internal details are described separately, in an incremental way.
Operational Semantics for Agents by Iterated Refinment / Federico Bergenti; Giovanni Rimassa; Mirko Viroli. - STAMPA. - 2990:(2004), pp. 39-55. [10.1007/978-3-540-25932-9_3]
Operational Semantics for Agents by Iterated Refinment
VIROLI, MIRKO
2004
Abstract
In this paper we evaluate transition systems as a tool for providing a rule-based specification of the operational aspects of autonomous agents. By our technique, different aspects of an agent can be analyzed and designed in a loosely coupled way, enabling the possibility of studying their properties in isolation. We take as a use case the Parade framework for building intelligent agents, which leverages a FIPA-like ACL semantics to support semantic interoperability. Our grey-boxing technique is exploited to provide a specification where aspects related to the ACL, the adopted ontology, the agent social role, and the other agent internal details are described separately, in an incremental way.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
