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In this paper we consider complex application scenarios, typically concerning smart Cyber-Physical Systems, where several components and subsystems interact among themselves, with human users and with the physical environment, and employ forms of intelligent reasoning for meeting the system’s requirements and reaching its overall objectives. We propose a new multi-component multi-level architecture called K-ACE, which provides a high degree of flexibility in the system’s definition, though within a formal semantics.
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Where AgentSpeak is a very popular language based on the BDI agent model [15], and Jason is a performant interpreter for an extended AgentSpeak language.
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Costantini, S., Pitoni, V. (2019). K-ACE: A Flexible Environment for Knowledge-Aware Multi-Agent Systems. In: Baldoni, M., Dastani, M., Liao, B., Sakurai, Y., Zalila Wenkstern, R. (eds) PRIMA 2019: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11873. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33792-6_2
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