An Agent Architecture for Dynamic Re-Design of Agents

This paper presents a generic architecture for an agent capable of designing and creating new agents. The design agent itself is based on an existing generic agent model, and includes a refinement of a generic model for design, in which strategic reasoning and dynamic management of requirements are explicitly modelled. This model is refined for the design of agents, or (parts of) multi-agent systems. It includes an explicit formal representation at a logical level of (1) requirements that can be formulated for agents and multi-agent systems, and (2) design object descriptions of a (part of a) multi-agent system. The generic architecture has been formally specified in DESIRE, and has been tested in a prototype application. 

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: ICMAS
• Authors: Frances M. T. Brazier, Catholijn M. Jonker, Jan Treur, Niek J. E. Wijngaards
• Keywords: Generic Agent Model, Generic Architecture, ICMAS 1998, Intelligent Agents, Multi-agent System