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Designing Multi-Agent Reactive Systems: A Specification Method Based on Reactive Decisional Agents

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Approaches to Intelligence Agents (PRIMA 1999)

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A Reactive system is one that is in continual interaction with its environment, and executes at a pace determined by that environment. Examples of such systems are network protocols, industrial-process control systems etc. The use of rigorous formal method in specification and validation, can help designers to limit the introduction of potentially faulty components during the construction of the system.

Due to their complex nature, reactive systems are extremely difficult to specify and validate. In this paper, we propose a new formal model for the specification and the validation of such systems. This approach considers a Reactive System as a Reactive Multi-Agent System consisting of concurrent reactive agents that cooperate with each other to achieve the desired functionality. In addition, this approach uses formal synchronous specification and verification tools in order to specify and to verify the systems behaviors. Finally an example of an application of the approach is mentioned.

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  1. LGI, Ecole Nationale Supèrieure, d’Informatique et d’Analyse des Systémes, BP 713, Agdal Rabat, Maroc

    Bouchaib Bounabat & Rahal Romadi

  2. Laboratoire des Mathèmatiques, Facultè des Sciences Marrakech-Semlalia, Maroc

    Salah Labhalla

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  1. Electrotechnical Laboratories, Umezono 1-1-4, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0045, Japan

    Hideyuki Nakashima

  2. Deakin University Geelong, Scool of Computing and Mathematics, Victoria 3217, Australia

    Chengqi Zhang

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Bounabat, B., Romadi, R., Labhalla, S. (1999). Designing Multi-Agent Reactive Systems: A Specification Method Based on Reactive Decisional Agents. In: Nakashima, H., Zhang, C. (eds) Approaches to Intelligence Agents. PRIMA 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1733. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46693-2_15

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