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Developing Multiagent Systems with agentTool

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The advent of multiagent systems has brought together many disciplines and given us a new way to look at intelligent, distributed systems. However, traditional ways of thinking about and designing software do not fit the multiagent paradigm. This paper describes the Multiagent Systems Engineering (MaSE) methodology and agentTool, a tool to support MaSE. MaSE guides a designer from an initial system specification to implementation by guiding the designer through a set of inter-related graphically based system models. The underlying formal syntax and semantics of clearly and unambiguously ties them together as envisioned by MaSE.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology, 2950 P Street, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7765

    Scott A. De Loach & Mark Wood

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  1. Department of Communication Sciences, “Cognitive Science”, University of Siena, piazza S.Francesco 8, 53100, Siena, Italy

    Cristiano Castelfranchi

  2. Department of Computer Science, York University, 4700 Keele Street, M3J 1P3, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Yves Lespérance

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Loach, S.A.D., Wood, M. (2001). Developing Multiagent Systems with agentTool. In: Castelfranchi, C., Lespérance, Y. (eds) Intelligent Agents VII Agent Theories Architectures and Languages. ATAL 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1986. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44631-1_4

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