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2000 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Using Multi-context Systems to Engineer Executable Agents
Authors : Jordi Sabater, Carles Sierra, Simon Parsons, Nicholas R. Jennings
Published in: Intelligent Agents VI. Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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In the area of agent-based computing there are many proposals for specific system architectures, and a number of proposals for general approaches to building agents. As yet, however, there are comparatively few attempts to relate these together, and even fewer attempts to provide methodologies which relate designs to architectures and then to executable agents. This paper provides a first attempt to address this shortcoming; we propose a general method of defining architectures for logic-based agents which can be directly executed. Our approach is based upon the use of multi-context systems and we illustrate its use through the specification of a simple agent.