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The agent-based systems have been designed and developed using the latest agent technologies. However, the design and the debugging of these systems contain some difficult problems due to the situational and nondeterministic nature of the agents, and the effective design-supporting technologies have not been proposed so far. In order to make efficient design process of agent system, we propose an interactive development method of agent system based on the agent-repository-based multiagent framework which focuses on an essential feature of agent system design, i.e., the reuse of existing agents stored in the agent repository. In this paper, we propose an Interactive Design Environment of Agent system called IDEA and demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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Uchiya, T., Maemura, T., Li, X., Kinoshita, T. (2007). Design and Implementation of Interactive Design Environment of Agent System. In: Okuno, H.G., Ali, M. (eds) New Trends in Applied Artificial Intelligence. IEA/AIE 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4570. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73325-6_109
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