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....and robust to changes in their environments [26] Ecosystems have been a source of inspiration to a number of previous developers of agent systems [e.g. 4, 12, 18] Moukas [12] employs ecosystem inspired ideas in the Amalthaea architecture for information filtering. Van Parunak and colleagues [18] have advocated a Synthetic Ecosystems approach to the design of multi agent systems, using the interaction of many simple agents to solve problems, rather than sophisticated processing at the individual agent level. Doran [4] provides a contrasting view of ecosystem inspired agent systems, ....

Parunak, V., Sauter, J., Clark, S. 1997 Toward the Specification and Design of Industrial Synthetic Ecosystems. Fourth International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL'97).

....on design time. The aim should be to optimise the agent organisation before it has been deployed. To achieve this, we need to identify some means for considering non functional requirements before actually deploying the multi agent system. This hypothesis is along the lines of similar works [13, 14] where the behaviour of a multi agent system is modelled and studied before actual system deployment. Non functional requirements in a system can be elicited by a number of standard techniques, for example by using requirement templates [22] By reusing organisational settings. This view ....

Parunak, V., J. Sauter, and S. Clark, Toward the Specification and Design of Industrial Synthetic Ecosystems, in Intelligent Agents IV: Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, M.P. Singh, A. Rao, and M.J. Wooldridge, Editors. 1998, Springer Verlag: Berlin. p. 45-59.

....cooperative unit in another holar chy [7] Both principles enable holonic manufacturing to flexibly organize and control the whole manufacturing pro cess of a company. Even though at first glance the ideas of HMS seem identi cal to those of multi agent applications to manufacturing (cf. e.g. [4,10,12,17]) a thorough comparison reveals significant differences: HMS is an organizing principle for structuring and controlling manufacturing processes, whereas multiagent systems is a software technology for realizing the information processing of a holonic manufacturing system [6] That is, ....

....we assume to have accom plished these steps and are now faced with the task of design ing and implementing each individual agent as a control component. Methodologies for analyzing and designing multi agent systems and deriving a specification for the agents of the system have been proposed in [4,8,15,17]. Given the control tasks one agent has to perform, an executable program is designed for each task. Because of the inherent concurrency of control strategies, the execution of tasks is synchronized in order to avoid data and action con flicts. Finally, the concurrent execution of tasks is ....

V. Parunak, J. Sauter, S. Clark: "Toward the Specification and Design of Industrial Synthetic Ecosystems", in: M. Singh, A. Rao, M. Wooldridge (eds.), Intelligent Agents IV (ATAL'97), LNAI 1365, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 1998.

.... Synthetic ecosystems, pheromone infrastructure, multi agent coordination, emergence 1 INTRODUCTION Recently, pheromone based coordination in multi agent systems has gained increasing attention in the scientific community.Following the principles of the design of synthetic ecosystems (SE) 6] [7]) pheromone based mechanisms have been applied, for instance, to packet routing in telecommunications networks ( 1] 4] to manufacturing logistics and control ( 9] 2] and to problems in military operations. The advantages of the indirect approach are: the agents are decoupled in their ....

Parunak, H.V.D., Sauter, J., Clark, S. "Toward the Specification and Design of Industrial Synthetic Ecosystems". In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL'97), Providence, Rhode Island, 1997.

....the methodologies, however, explain how the decision making should be modelled or combined to form roles. For production control, it is therefore necessary to extend these methodologies by a preceding analysis step that derives roles from the production control problem. Parunak, Sauter, and Clark [20] take a different approach to building multi agent systems. They view a multi agent system as consisting of many simple, interacting agents which exhibit social coherence. In their methodology, Parunak et al. base the identification of agents on a linguistic case analysis of the problem ....

V. Parunak, J. Sauter, S. Clark: "Toward the Specification and Design of Industrial Synthetic Ecosystems". In M.P. Singh, A. Rao, M.J. Wooldridge (eds.), Intelligent Agents IV (ATAL'97) , LNAI 1365, pages 45 -- 59. Springer-Verlag: Berlin, Germany, 1998.

....justify it in the first place. This paper develops a set of requirements for manufacturing shop floor scheduling and control, then displays the design of an agent based system that responds to those requirements. Details on the methodology that moves from requirements to design are available in [26]. Section 2 briefly describes the problem we are addressing and the requirements we identify. Section 3 shows how these requirements justify the use of agents (as opposed to monolithic software and object oriented programming) and defines a set of agents that satisfy the requirements. Section 4 ....

....possible set of candidates. While some entities may prove unnecessary, it s easier to cast the net broadly and leave some for potential future elaboration than to build an architecture into which omitted entities cannot easily be added later. Our design methodology, outlined in more detail in [26], draws on an apparently universal characteristic of human thought: people partition reality between things and events that involve those things, and express thoughts by placing nouns in various semantic relations with a verb. The underlying set of these relations (called deep structure cases or ....

H. V. D. Parunak, J. Sauter, and S. J. Clark. Toward the Specification and Design of Industrial Synthetic Ecosystems. In , Intelligent Agents IV: Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages 45-59. Springer, Berlin, 1998. Available at http://www.iti.org/~van/agentDesignMethod.ps.

....more robust and reusable agents result when we build agents around things rather than functions wherever possible. This stance does not exclude functional agents, but requires that they be subordinate to and consistent with the physical entities in the system. Our design methodology is outlined in [12]. The critical step of partitioning the domain into agents uses a linguistic method based on case grammar. Beginning with a narrative description of the problem domain, we focus on the linguistic case slots that relate the nouns to the verbs. Each type of case slot is a candidate for an agent ....

H. V. D. Parunak, J. Sauter, and S. J. Clark, "Toward the Specification and Design of Industrial Synthetic Ecosystems," in Intelligent Agents IV: Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1365, M. P. Singh, A. Rao, and M. J. Wooldridge, Eds. Berlin: Springer, 1998, pp. 45-59.

....its name, type, role, position, a description, offered services, goals, skills (sensors and effectors) reasoning capabilities, general capabilities norms, preferences and permissions. The approach followed here is quite different from the approach of agent identification in synthetic ecosystems [23], since we suppose that agents will be rather complex (because of their architecture) and we will try to limit the number of agents. alt tell(flights) sorry(cause) msc DETERMINE FLIGHTS AND PREDICTIONS Airline clerk Secretary Predictor ask(dd, ad, destination) ask(flights) tell(predictions) Fig. ....

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Parunak, H. Van Dyke, John Sauter, and Steven J. Clark, "Toward the Specification and Design of Industrial Synthetic Ecosystems," Intelligent Agents IV: Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, Munindar P. Singh et al. ed., Springer, Berlin, 1998, pp. 45-59.

.... The main contribution of this paper is to illustrate the interplay between industrial requirements and agent technology in a specific context, the RAPPID project (Responsible Agents for Product Process Integrated Design) and to provide a concrete example of the development process outlined in [17]. Section 2 develops requirements by considering the task of industrial design, which RAPPID is intended to facilitate. Section 3 outlines the design of the RAPPID system, while Section 4 surveys the operation of the system and its performance in experimental tests. Section 5 reviews other work in ....

H. V. D. Parunak, J. Sauter, and S. J. Clark. Toward the Specification and Design of Industrial Synthetic Ecosystems. In , Intelligent Agents IV: Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages 45-59. Springer, Berlin, 1998. Available at http://www.iti.org/~van/agentDesignMethod.ps.

....(capabilities and plans) Local Behavior (reactivity, routine tasks) The Individual Agent (Knowledge Level) Local knowledge (The agent s beliefs) 4.3.2. 2 The Design Process In our work with industrial clients, we have been developing an iterative refinement approach to designing agentbased systems [80]. The four stages outlined in Table 2 lead from a rough initial sketch of the community and its interactions to the point that software engineers can begin implementation. Between any two of these activities, there is a good deal of iteration. Role playing may send us back to the drawing board to ....

H. V. D. Parunak, J. Sauter, and S. J. Clark. Toward the Specification and Design of Industrial Synthetic Ecosystems. In Proceedings of Fourth International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL), Springer, 1997.

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