Principles of Compositional Multi-Agent System Development
Frances M.T. Brazier, Catholijn M. Jonker, Jan Treur, J. Cuena · Digital Academic REpository of VU University Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) · 1997
A dedicated development method for multi-agent systems requires adequate means to describe the characteristics of agents and multi-agent systems.Compositional multi-agent system development is based on the principles process and knowledge abstraction, compositionality, reuse, specification and verification.Although the paper addreses these principles of compositional multi-agent system development from a generic perspective, some of the examples used to illustrate the notions discussed are taken from the compositional development method DESIRE.