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With the currently ongoing and necessary process to define standards for multi-agent systems, their potential for adaptation to specific underlying system requirements becomes increasingly challenging. Especially in those applications, where multi-agent systems are coupled to hard- and software systems, which have specific operational characteristics, such as specific response times or quality-of-service requirements. As a result, it is proposed to separate the high-level decision making based on standardized multi-agent systems and the low-level system control into two layers. In this paper, based on a publisher/subscriber software-bus system, we propose a framework which allows dynamic allocation and linking of agents to underlying low-level hardware control. The concept of the framework and its architecture is introduced and an application example is outlined.
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Brehm, R., Redder, M., Flaegel, G., Menz, J., Bruce-Boye, C. (2019). A Framework for a Dynamic Inter-connection of Collaborating Agents with Multi-layered Application Abstraction Based on a Software-Bus System. In: Czarnowski, I., Howlett, R., Jain, L., Vlacic, L. (eds) Intelligent Decision Technologies 2018. KES-IDT 2018 2018. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 97. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92028-3_15
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