Paper Info
Title
Designing and implementing complex systems with agents
Abstract
This paper describes an ongoing research in the Geomas project, initially intended to study applications of agent technology in complex systems. A complex system can be defined as a system in which behavior is bad-understood and designing such systems then requires specific considerations, justifying the need of the agent paradigm, when no other solutions could be found in an efficient way. The complex system tackled in this paper to illustrate our purposes is the prediction of volcano eruptions. Through the presentation of a simulation application for volcano phenomena, this paper focus on a software engineering approach to agent modelling in simulation. To address such issues, the paper describes an agent architecture through of as software engineering models of agents. A structural approach of the designing task is introduced by 1. conducting a top-down analysis to look for autonomous agents; 2. identifying internal behaviors, interaction processes and evolving facilities of each agent; and 3. looking at the emergence of the global behavior.
Year
DOI
Venue
1996
10.1007/978-0-387-34984-8_3
Software Engineering for Parallel and Distributed Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
complex system
Complex system,System of systems engineering,Autonomous agent,Agent oriented design,Systems engineering,Computer science,Agent architecture,Multi-agent system,Structural approach
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-412-75740-0
2
0.41
References 
Authors
1
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
P. Marcenac1309.38
Sylvain Giroux227644.28
J. R. Grasso320.41