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This paper deals with a goal-oriented agent model called Goal Decomposition Tree (GDT) allowing both to specify and validate the behaviour of an agent. This work takes place in a global framework whose goal is to define a process allowing to start from a problem specification to obtain a validated implementation of a corresponding MAS. The GDT model has been used to specify a prey-predator system which has been verified this way.
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Simon, G., Mermet, B., Fournier, D. (2006). Goal Decomposition Tree: An Agent Model to Generate a Validated Agent Behaviour. In: Baldoni, M., Endriss, U., Omicini, A., Torroni, P. (eds) Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies III. DALT 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3904. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11691792_8
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