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Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Volume 135, 2005
Self-Organization and Autonomic Informatics (I)
Edited by Hans Czap, Rainer Unland, Cherif Branki, Huaglory Tianfield
ISBN 978-1-58603-577-8

Towards a Methodology for Engineering Self-Organising Emergent Systems 18 - 34


Abstract

When designing self-organising emergent multi-agent systems (MASs), a fundamental engineering issue is to achieve a macroscopic behaviour that meets the requirements and emerges only from the behaviour of locally interacting agents. Agent-oriented methodologies today are mainly focussed on engineering the microscopic issues, i.e. the agents, their rules, how they interact, etc, without explicit support for engineering the required macroscopic behaviour. As a consequence, the macroscopic behaviour is achieved in an ad-hoc manner. This paper proposes a way to define a full life-cycle methodology based on an industry-ready software engineering process, i.e. the Unified Process, which is customised to explicitly focus on engineering macroscopic behaviour of self-organising emergent MASs. As such, the MAS paradigm is integrated into an existing and widely accepted methodology and we can systematically develop a solution that exhibits the required macroscopic behaviour.


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