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This paper describes a methodology that system designers can use to identify, and find suitable responses for, potential failure modes (henceforth called ‘exceptions’) in multi-agent systems.
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Klein, M. (2004). A Knowledge-Based Methodology for Designing Reliable Multi-agent Systems. In: Giorgini, P., Müller, J.P., Odell, J. (eds) Agent-Oriented Software Engineering IV. AOSE 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2935. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24620-6_6
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