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A Software Architecture for Multi-agent Systems

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Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS 2005)

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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.

This work is supported by grants from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Canada.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1M8, Canada

    Vasu S. Alagar

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, La Crosse, WI, 54601, USA

    Mao Zheng

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Microelectronic Instiute, Xidian University, 710071, Xi’an, China

    Yue Hao

  2. Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

    Jiming Liu

  3. School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, China

    Yuping Wang

  4. Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong,  

    Yiu-ming Cheung

  5. School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester, UK

    Hujun Yin

  6. Life Science Research Center, School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, 710071, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

    Licheng Jiao

  7. Key Laboratory of Computer Networks and Information Security (Ministry of Education), Xidian University, 710071, Xi’an, China

    Jianfeng Ma

  8. National Laboratory of Antennas and Microwave Technology, Xidian University, 710071, Xi’an, Shanxi, P.R. China

    Yong-Chang Jiao

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Alagar, V.S., Zheng, M. (2005). A Software Architecture for Multi-agent Systems. In: Hao, Y., et al. Computational Intelligence and Security. CIS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3801. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11596448_44

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11596448_44

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

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