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Along with direct interaction models, relying on message-based explicit communication, indirect interaction models can play an important role for designing coordination strategies in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). Among indirect models, those based on agent observability such as over-sensing achieve coordination by letting agents observe and possibly reason about (each) others’ actions and state. In this paper we describe how over-sensing and, more generally, agent observability mechanism can be used in practice to program MAS in the context of artifact-based environments by exploiting the support provided by CArtAgO technology.
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Ricci, A., Piunti, M. (2009). Implementing Over-Sensing in Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems on Top of Artifact-Based Environments. In: Braubach, L., van der Hoek, W., Petta, P., Pokahr, A. (eds) Multiagent System Technologies. MATES 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5774. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04143-3_25
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