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From Specification to Implementation: A Method for Designing Multi-Agent Systems in a Transformational Style

From Specification to Implementation: A Method for Designing Multi-Agent Systems in a Transformational Style
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Author(s): Hong Lin (University of Houston-Downtown, USA)
Copyright: 2007
Pages: 4
Source title: Managing Worldwide Operations and Communications with Information Technology
Source Editor(s): Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. (Information Resources Management Association, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-929-8.ch072
ISBN13: 9781599049298
EISBN13: 9781466665378

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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