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This paper introduces a programming environment and architecture for
the development of agent based cooperative applications using a role
based approach. We focus on the cooperative aspects by introducing
cooperation processes (CP) as a concept of its own. CPs describe all
and only the coordination and cooperation parts of an application.
The explicit documentation of the coordination and cooperation
mechanisms used in a MAS allows their evaluation and reuse. We are
able to change existing and introduce new cooperation processes at
runtime without modifying the existing agents. We specify the
cooperative behaviour of an agent in a separate role description.
The interconnection of these roles constitutes the CP. Describing
cooperation independent from concrete agents allows to build
heterogeneous, federative and transformable MAS. We show how agents
decide what roles to accept and how the agent-role interaction
works. Finally we present the ROPE framework and runtime
environment.
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Edinburgh, Scotland: Los Alamitos, California
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Text
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| Article in Proceedings
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| source |
In: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on
Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS'99), pp. 325-333
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| contributor |
Verteilte Systeme (IPVR)
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| subject |
Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages (CR F.4)
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| Cooperation Architecture
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| Multi Agent Framework
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| relation |
IEEE Computer Society
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