Coordination for Situated MAS: Towards an Event-driven Architecture

Andrea Omicini, Stefano Mariani

Complex software systems modelled as multi-agent systems (MAS) are characterised by activities that are generated either by agents, or by the environment in its most general acceptation—that is, environmental resources and the spatio-temporal fabric. Modelling and engineering complex multi-agent systems (MAS) – such as pervasive, adaptive, and situated MAS – requires then to properly handle diverse classes of events: agent operations, resource events, spatio-temporal situation. In the following, first we devise out the requirements for a software architecture for an agent-based middleware based on boundary artefacts, then we sketch a concrete architecture based on the TuCSoN middleware for MAS coordination.

International Workshop on Petri Nets and Software Engineering (PNSE'13), CEUR Workshop Proceedings 989, pages 17-22, 24-25 June 2013.
Daniel Moldt, Heiko Rölke (eds.), Sun SITE Central Europe, RWTH Aachen University
Joint Proceedings of the International Workshop on Petri Nets and Software Engineering (PNSE'13) and the International Workshop on Modeling and Business Environments (ModBE'13). Milano, Italy, 24-25 June 2013. Invited Paper

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	Author = {Omicini, Andrea and Mariani, Stefano},
	Booktitle = {International Workshop on Petri Nets and Software Engineering (PNSE'13)},
	Editor = {Moldt, Daniel and R{\"o}lke, Heiko},
	Issn = {1613-0073},
	Month = {6~} # aug,
	Note = {Joint Proceedings of the International Workshop on Petri Nets and Software Engineering (PNSE'13) and the International Workshop on Modeling and Business Environments (ModBE'13), co-located with the 34th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency (Petri Nets 2013). Milano, Italy, 24--25~} # jun # {~2013. Invited paper},
	Pages = {17--22},
	Publisher = {Sun SITE Central Europe, RWTH Aachen University},
	ScopusId = {2-s2.0-84924977807},
	Series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
	Title = {Coordination for Situated {MAS}: Towards an Event-driven Architecture},
	Url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-989/paper00.pdf},
	Volume = 989,
	Year = 2013}