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Implementing Validated Agents Behaviours with Automata Based on Goal Decomposition Trees

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In order to provide an effective tool allowing to implement validated agents behaviours, this paper first presents a Goal Decomposition Tree (GDT), a model to specify behaviours both in procedural and declarative ways. A GDT allows the designer to verify the specified behaviour. This model is then used to generate a behaviour automaton using automata composition patterns associated to operators used in the tree. This process allows to obtain a finite expression representing all valid behaviours of agents of a MAS.

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  1. LIH, Université du Havre, 76058 Cedex, Le Havre, France

    Gaële Simon & Marianne Flouret

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  1. Department of Informatics, Clausthal University of Technology, Julius-Albert-Str. 4, D-38678, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany

    Jörg P. Müller

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze e Metodi dell’Ingegneria, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Amendola 2, 42100, Reggio Emilia, Italy

    Franco Zambonelli

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Simon, G., Flouret, M. (2006). Implementing Validated Agents Behaviours with Automata Based on Goal Decomposition Trees. In: Müller, J.P., Zambonelli, F. (eds) Agent-Oriented Software Engineering VI. AOSE 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3950. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11752660_10

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