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Cooperative, autonomous and distributed properties of multi-agent systems deduce the dynamic capabilities of multi-agent system applications. On the other hand, these suitable features increase the error proneness of these applications. In this paper, we propose an exception handling approach to make multi-agent system applications more reliable and robust. And also we classify multi-agent exceptions and have implemented our approach on SEAGENT goal-oriented multi-agent development framework.
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Cakirlar, I., Ekinci, E.E., Dikenelli, O. (2009). Exception Handling in Goal-Oriented Multi-Agent Systems. In: Artikis, A., Picard, G., Vercouter, L. (eds) Engineering Societies in the Agents World IX. ESAW 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5485. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02562-4_7
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