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A System Approach to Describing, Analysing and Control of the Behaviour of Agents in MAS

A System Approach to Describing, Analysing and Control of the Behaviour of Agents in MAS
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Author(s): František Capkovic (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Republic)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 21
Source title: Cybernetics and Systems Theory in Management: Tools, Views, and Advancements
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Steven E. Wallis (Director, Foundation for the Advancement of Social Theory, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-668-1.ch014

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Abstract

The Petri nets (PN)-based analytical approach to describing both the single agent behaviour as well as the cooperation of several agents in MAS (multi agent systems) is presented. PN yield the possibility to express the agent behaviour and cooperation by means of the vector state equation in the form of linear discrete system. Hence, the modular approach to the creation of the MAS model can be successfully used too. Three different interconnections of modules (agents, interfaces, environment) expressed by PN subnets are introduced. The approach makes possible to use methods of linear algebra. Moreover, it can be successfully used at the system analysis (e.g. the reachability of states), at testing the system properties, and even at the system control synthesis.

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