Reconciling Event- and Agent-Based Paradigms in the Engineering of Complex Systems: The Role of Environment Abstractions

Andrea Omicini, Stefano Mariani

In spite of the growing influence of agent-based models and technologies, the event-based architectural style is still prevalent in the design of large-scale distributed applications. In this paper we discuss the role of environment in both EBS and MAS, and show how it could be used as a starting point for reconciling agent-based and event-based abstractions and techniques within a conceptually-coherent framework that could work as the foundation of a principled discipline for the engineering of complex software systems.

(keywords) multi-agent systems, event-based systems, environment, situatedness, coordination models, TuCSoN

Agent Environments for Multi-Agent Systems IV, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) 9068, pages 117-130, November 2015.
Danny Weyns, Fabien Michel (eds.), Springer International Publishing
4th International Workshop, E4MAS 2014 - 10 Years Later, Paris, France, May 6, 2014, Revised Selected and Invited Papers

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	Author = {Omicini, Andrea and Mariani, Stefano},
	Booktitle = {Agent Environments for Multi-Agent Systems IV},
	Doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-23850-0_8},
	Editor = {Weyns, Danny and Michel, Fabien},
	Keywords = {multi-agent systems, event-based systems, environment, situatedness, coordination models, TuCSoN},
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