Current Issues in Multi-Agent Systems Development

Abstract. This paper surveys the state-of-the-art in developing multi-agent systems, and sets out to answer the questions: "what are the key current issues in developing multi-agent systems?" and "what should we, as a research community, be paying particular attention to, over the next few years?". Based on our characterisation of the current state-of-the-art in developing MAS, we identify three key areas for future work: techniques for integrating design and code; extending agent-oriented programming languages to cover certain aspects that are currently weak or missing (e.g., social concepts, and modelling the environment); and development of debugging and verification techniques, with a particular focus on using model checking also in testing and debugging, and applying model checking to design artefacts.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ESAW
• Authors: Rafael H. Bordini, Mehdi Dastani, Michael Winikoff
• Keywords: ESAW 2006, Intelligent Agents, Key Current Issues, Model Checking, Multi-agent Systems