Agent specification using multi-context systems


Parsons, S., Jennings, N. R., Sabater, J. and Sierra, C. (2002) Agent specification using multi-context systems. In, d'Inverno, M., Luck, M., Fisher, M. and Priest, C. (eds.) Foundations and Applications of Multi-Agent Systems: UKMAS 1996-2000. , Springer Verlag, 205-226.

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In the area of agent-based computing there are many proposals for specific system architectures, and a number of proposals for general approaches to building agents. As yet, however, there are comparatively few attempts to relate these together, and even fewer attempts to provide methodologies which relate designs to architectures and then to executable agents. This paper discusses an attempt we have made to address this shortcoming, describibg a general method of defining architectures for logic-based agents which can be directly executed. Our approach is based upon the use of multi-context systems and we illustrate its use through examples of the specification of simple agents.

Item Type: Book Section
Divisions: Faculty of Physical and Applied Science > Electronics and Computer Science > Agents, Interactions & Complexity
Item ID: 256879
Date Deposited: 13 Jun 2003
Last Modified: 02 Mar 2012 13:40
Contributors: Parsons, S. (Author)
Jennings, N. R. (Author)
Sabater, J. (Author)
Sierra, C. (Author)
d'Inverno, M. (Editor)
Luck, M. (Editor)
Fisher, M. (Editor)
Priest, C. (Editor)
Date: 2002
Status: Published
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Further Information:Google Scholar
ISI Citation Count:1
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/256879

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