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Roles in Mas

Managing the Complexity of Tasks and Environments

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An Application Science for Multi-Agent Systems

Part of the book series: Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated Organizations ((MASA,volume 10))

Abstract

Roles have been used both as an intuitive concept in order to analyze multi-agent systems and model inter-agent social activity as well as a formal structure in order to implement coherent and robust teams. The extensive use of roles in implemented systems evidences their importance in multi-agent systems design and implementation. In this paper we emphasize the importance of roles for multi-agent systems to act in complex domains, identify some of their properties and we review work done concerning specification and exploitation of roles in agent-oriented system engineering methodologies, in formal models about agent social activity, and in multi-agent systems that are deployed in dynamic and unpredictable domains.

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, 83200, Samos, Greece

    Ioannis Partsakoulakis & George Vouros

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Partsakoulakis, I., Vouros, G. (2004). Roles in Mas. In: Wagner, T.A. (eds) An Application Science for Multi-Agent Systems. Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated Organizations, vol 10. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-7868-4_8

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