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The CoMoMAS methodology and environment for multi-agent system development

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This paper presents the CoMoMAS methodology and environment for the development of multi-agent systems. We use a conceptual model set to describe a multi-agent system under different views. These models are derived from the knowledge-engineering methodology CommonKADS. In contrast to CommonKADS, our approach takes several agent-specific aspects into consideration, in particular, the use of additional knowledge structures and their flexible representation to guarantee an agent's autonomy at execution time. A knowledge engineering environment has been conceived to demonstrate the feasibility of this conceptual approach. Conceptual models are represented in an extended version of the Conceptual Modeling Language (CML).

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Glaser, N. (1997). The CoMoMAS methodology and environment for multi-agent system development. In: Zhang, C., Lukose, D. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems Methodologies and Applications. DAI 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1286. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0030078

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