Patterns of intelligent and mobile agents

Kendall, Elizabeth; Krishna, P. Venkata; Pathak, Chirag V.; Suresh, C. B.

doi:10.1145/280765.280781

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“…According to this first point of view, numerous works such as (Kendall et al, 1998) (Aridor & Lange, 1998) feature agent-oriented concepts as object-oriented ones and adapt existing object-oriented patterns to their needs. This is not suited for agent-based system engineering due to the differences between agent technology concepts and object ones and their implementation languages.…”

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confidence: 99%

Patterns for Agent-Based Information Systems: A Case Study in Transport

Couturier

Huget

Telisson

2012

Innovative Information Systems Modelling Techniques

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Patterns for Agent-Based Information Systems: A Case Study in Transport

Couturier

Huget

Telisson

2012

Innovative Information Systems Modelling Techniques

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“…In the area of multi-agent systems, some work has been done in designing agent patterns, see for instance [33][34][35]. However, these contributions focus on problems like how agents communicate with each other, get information from information sources, and establish a connection with a specific host.…”

Section: Architectural Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards requirements-driven information systems engineering: the Tropos project

Castro

Kolp²,

Mylopoulos

2002

Information Systems

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Information systems of the future will have to perform well within ever-changing organizational environments. Unfortunately, existing software development methodologies (object-oriented, structured or otherwise) have traditionally been inspired by programming concepts, not organizational ones, leading to a semantic gap between the software system and its operational environment. To reduce this gap, we propose a software development methodology named Tropos which is founded on concepts used to model early requirements. Our proposal adopts the i n organizational modeling framework, which offers the notions of actor, goal and (actor) dependency, and uses these as a foundation to model early and late requirements, architectural and detailed design. The paper outlines Tropos phases through an e-business example, and sketches a formal language which underlies the methodology and is intended to support formal analysis. The methodology seems to complement well proposals for agent-oriented programming platforms. r

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“…al. describe the problem, forces, and then the solution [95]. The Tropos project is another source of published agent patterns but again there is no definitive recommendation about an appropriate description template [24].…”

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Modelling Intention Recognition for Intelligent Agent Systems

Heinze¹

2004

PsycEXTRA Dataset

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Mainstream visual psychology presents a 'sense then infer' account of vision that is analogous to the 'sense then infer' processing that characterises the agent intention recognition literature. From ecological psychology comes Gibson's theory of visual perception that highlights the importance of the environment in explaining the nature of vision and recognition and claims that higher order structures are directly accessible. This theory can be used as the stepping-off point for an account of intention recognition and the means by which it might be modelled. Furthermore, the capacity for virtual environments to be designed 'agent friendly' provides yet another dimension of design freedom. When accompanied by an explicit model of perception the intention recognition problem can be cast as a software design problem. The resulting design patterns provide useful options for modelling intention recognition in intelligent agent systems. When constructing military simulations that require sophisticated cognitive models there are plenty of challenges to occupy the developer. Human factors experts, particularly cognitivists, endeavour to gain an understanding of actual human psychology behind the behaviours to be modelled; computer scientists attempt to develop computational technologies with the attributes necessary to model those cognitive functions. Ultimately engineers must draw these models and technologies together in a manner that results in simulation systems that meet the expressed requirements. In the world of military simulation requirements vary substantively. High fidelity, whilst seemingly always desirable often conflicts with performance, maintainability, complexity, and other attributes that combine to make the software less useful. Balancing these requirements is aided by the availability of several architectures that allow the engineer the freedom to tradeoff various attributes of the system. This thesis presents a series of design patterns that provides software architectures useful for implementing intention recognition. Each of these architectures has a basis (although sometimes this tenuous) in psychology and cognitive modelling, and each imposes requirements on the technology necessary for implementation. The relative merits of the patterns are presented as are fully worked examples of their application to flight simulation. APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE in DSTO-RR-0286IV DSTO-RR-02M Author Clint Heinze Air Operations DivisionClint Heinze is a cognitive scientist interested in the research spaces where software engineering overlaps AI. Primarily this involves attempts to discover ways of engineering representations of intelligence that have the properties commonly desired of quality software -that is they should be robust, reliable, validated, etc. He has a degree in Aerospace Engineering from EMIT and has recently completed his PhD in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne. Since 1989 the Defence Science and Technology Organisation have em...

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Patterns of intelligent and mobile agents

Cited by 70 publications

References 8 publications

Patterns for Agent-Based Information Systems: A Case Study in Transport

Patterns for Agent-Based Information Systems: A Case Study in Transport

Towards requirements-driven information systems engineering: the Tropos project

Modelling Intention Recognition for Intelligent Agent Systems

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