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From Specification to Implementation: A Method for Designing Multi-Agent Systems in a Transformational Style
Abstract
The suitability of using Chemical Reaction Metaphor (CRM) to model multi-agent systems (MASs) is justified by CRM’s capacity in specifying dynamic features of multi-agent systems. This paper presents a module language that facilitates a transformational method for implementing the specified multi-agent systems. A computation model with a tree-structured architecture is proposed to support the module language. The computational model is a straightforward abstraction of networked computing sources with minimum assumptions. In this model, the multicast network functionality pragmatizes the implementation of communications and synchronization among distributed agents. The transformational method is a rewriting process that translates the CRM specification into a program in the module language.
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