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IOM/T: an interaction description language for multi-agent systems

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Yasuyuki Tahara,

Shinichi HonidenAuthors Info & Claims

AAMAS '05: Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems

Pages 778 - 785

https://doi.org/10.1145/1082473.1082592

Published: 25 July 2005 Publication History

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A multi-agent system is a useful approach for the complex systems. One of the important concepts of multi-agent systems is cooperativeness, or interactions. However, existing languages for implementing interactions lack expressiveness. This causes gaps between design and implementation. This paper analyzes language functionalities for implementing interactions. Furthermore, a new interaction description language IOM/T is proposed based on the findings. Interaction would become easy to implement based on design using IOM/T.

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IOM/T: an interaction description language for multi-agent systems
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages

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AAMAS '05: Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems

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DOI:10.1145/1082473

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