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The compositional multi-agent design method DESIRE (DEsign and Specification of Interacting REasoning components) supports the design of autonomous interacting agents. Both the intra-agent functionality (i.e., the expertise required to perform the tasks for which an agent is responsible in terms of the knowledge, and reasoning and acting capabilities) and the inter-agent functionality (i.e., the expertise required to perform and guide co-ordination, co-operation and other forms of social interaction in terms of knowledge, and reasoning and acting capablities) are explicitly modelled. DESIRE views both the individual agents and the overall system as compositional structures—hence all functionality is designed in terms of interacting, compositionally structured components. Complex distributed processes are the result of tasks performed by agents in interaction with their environment.
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Brazier, F.M.T., Jonker, C.M., Treur, J. (2002). Compositional Design of Multi-Agent Systems: Modelling Dynamics and Control. In: Meyer, JJ.C., Treur, J. (eds) Agent-Based Defeasible Control in Dynamic Environments. Handbook of Defeasible Reasoning and Uncertainty Management Systems, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1741-0_3
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