Engineering Scalable Distributed Environments and Organizations for MAS
Journal
Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
Type
book section
Date Issued
2019-05-13
Author(s)
Ricci, Alessandro
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Hubner, Jomi Fred
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Bordini, Rafael H.
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Boissier, Olivier
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Abstract
In MAS programming and engineering, the environment and the organisation can be exploited as first-class design and programming abstractions besides the agent one. A main example of a platform implementing this view is JaCaMo, which allows the programming of a MAS in terms of an organisation of cognitive agents sharing acommon artifact-based environment. However, MAS models and platforms in general do not provide a satisfactory approach for MAS developers to uniformly deal with distribution at multiple dimensions — agent, environment, and organisation. Typically, environments are either centralised in a single node, or composed by parts that run on different nodes but with a poor support atthe programming and execution levels to deal with that. In this paper, we tackle this problem by proposing a model for engineering world-wide distributed environments and organisations for MAS. The approach integrates the A&A (Agents and Artifacts) conceptual model with a web/resource-oriented view of distributed systems as proposed by the REST architectural style. To evaluate the approach, an extension of the JaCaMo open-source platform has been developed implementing the proposed model.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Book title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
Event Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
Subject(s)
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Eprints ID
256719
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