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One of the important research areas is a modification of agent behaviors within a running system. Although this topic has been addressed in the past, the typical focus was on agent reasoning, where adaptability was concerned mostly with selecting appropriate pre-defined agent behaviors. While this approach allows agents to respond to environmental changes, it does not adequately address issues with (1) a dynamic introduction of previously unknown behaviors, and (2) execution of modifications without disrupting the remaining processes. Therefore, these two aspects become the core of the following contribution. The work shows how agent behaviors can be represented and modified using Rule-based Expert Systems with Expression Languages, where the adaptations are possible without interrupting agent system operation. The implemented solution is demonstrated using an example of a simple multi-agent restaurant recommendation system.
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The research was partially funded by the Warsaw University of Technology as part of the Excellence Initiative - Research University (IDUB) Program. Moreover, work was partially supported by the European Union’s “Horizon Europe” RIA funding programme as part of the “Autonomous, scalable, trustworthy, intelligent European meta operating system for the IoT edge-cloud continuum” (aerOS) project under Grant Agreement No. 101069732.
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Wrona, Z., Ganzha, M., Wasielewska-Michniewska, K., Paprzycki, M. (2025). Dynamic Modification of Agent Behaviors Without Disrupting a Running System. In: Mathieu, P., De la Prieta, F. (eds) Advances in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Digital Twins: The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 15157. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70415-4_25
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