Paper Info
Title
A software architecture for multi-agent systems
Abstract
Agent technology is widely used in the construction of large software systems, in particular E-Commerce and secure-critical systems. To fully utilize the potential of agents in the software system, it is essential to embed the BDI (Beliefs, Desires, Intentions) properties of agents in the software agents that model them. This paper introduces a formal software architectural design of a Multi-agent system (MAS) in which the BDI architecture is embedded. We embed the BDI properties of agents in an extended state machine (ESM) model and suggest that an implementation of the BDI architecture in a high-level programming language can be tested for conformance by generating test cases from the ESMs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1007/11596448_44
CIS (1)
Keywords
Field
DocType
software system,software agent,bdi property,formal software,multi-agent system,bdi architecture,large software system,agent technology,secure-critical system,software architecture,architectural design,multi agent system,e commerce,software architecture design,software systems,programming language,state machine
Computer science,Software architecture description,Software system,Reference architecture,Resource-oriented architecture,Software architecture,Software construction,Belief–desire–intention software model,Software development,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
3801
0302-9743
3-540-30818-0
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.52
7
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vasu S. Alagar1223.48
Mao Zheng2131.52