Towards Developing Digital Twin Enabled Multi-Agent Systems

The Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) literature provides abstractions, techniques, and development platforms to design and implement the virtual environment within which agents operate. However, coupling such an environment with a physical counterpart is still cumbersome, as existing approaches deal with the issue in an ad-hoc way, without general purpose abstractions and methods. Recently, a new paradigm could complement the agent-oriented one to deal with digitalisation of physical environments in a more principled and interoperable way: the Digital Twin (DT). In this paper, we propose a first principled integration between MAS and DTs for MAS environment engineering.