Modelling MAS with Finite Analytic Stochastic Processes
Luke Dickens · 2008
Abstract. The Multi-Agent paradigm is becoming increasingly popular as a way of capturing complex control processes with stochastic properties. Many existing modelling tools are not flexible enough for these purposes, possibly because many of the modelling frameworks available inherit their structure from single agent frameworks. This paper proposes a new family of modelling frameworks called FASP, which is based on state encapsulation and powerful enough to capture multi-agent domains. It identifies how the FASP is more flexible, and describes systems more naturally than other approaches, demonstrating this with a number of robot football (soccer) formulations. This is important because more natural descriptions give more control when designing the tasks, against which a group of agents’ collective behaviour is evaluated and regulated. 1