Coordination Tools for the Development of Agent-based Systems

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Robert Trappl (a cura di)
Cybernetics and Systems 2002, pp. 671–676
Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies
aprile 2002

Development and deployment tools are required to effectively support the engineering of multi-agent systems (MAS). In particular, tools are needed to monitor and debug inter-agents aspects, such as interaction protocols, coordination policies and environment constraints.
By assuming interaction as a first-class issue, this paper aims at identifying the main aspects of support tools for an effective agent infrastructure, and takes tuple-based coordination infrastructures as its reference. The role of support tools is discussed in a simple case study: the development and deployment of a well-known agent interaction protocol, the Contract Net.

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