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Many different approaches exist for modeling multi-agent systems: The variety ranges from frameworks dedicated to a specific problem domain to very flexible systems similar to text-based or graphical programming languages. While problem domain specific frameworks have an obvious lack of flexibility (and thus can only be configured for a small set of similar problems), the more flexible systems enforce detailed modeling, in which many details (e.g. the agent behavior) have to be implemented manually. As a consequence, the results obtained from such systems are often very heterogeneous and incomparable across problem domains. In this paper, a graphical modeling language is introduced that focuses on a common base for multi-agent systems. By strictly separating the modeling of agent tasks from the agent behavior, the same agent models can be reused for different scenarios and the obtained results will be comparable across problem domains.
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Apeldoorn, D. (2013). AbstractSwarm – A Generic Graphical Modeling Language for Multi-Agent Systems. In: Klusch, M., Thimm, M., Paprzycki, M. (eds) Multiagent System Technologies. MATES 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8076. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40776-5_17
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