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Title

TANDEM: a design method for integrating web services into multi-agent systems

Author(s)

Goschnick, Steve;  Balbo, Sandrine;  Sterling, Leon;  Sun, Christine

Abstract

This paper introduces a new design method for multi-agent systems (MAS) that incorporate logic programming. The DigitalFriend is an example of a MAS with a built-in logic language interpreter, which is aimed at having the end-user as developer. It uses small fragments of logic as dynamic glue, bringing together numerous sub-agents that may exist as Web services. However, application developers need to devise well-formed predicates and logic rules - and there lies the need for a specific design method. The well-established techniques of Task Analysis and entity relation Normalization are drawn together into our new design method (TANDEM), introduced here with an example application - the movie-cinema problem.

Publication type

Conference paper

Source

Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2006), Hakodate, Japan, 08-12 May 2006, Vol. 2006, pp. 939-941

Publication year

2006

Keyword(s)

Computer programming languages;  End user systems;  Knowledge based systems;  Logic language;  Logic programming;  Multi-agent systems;  Program interpreters;  User interfaces;  Web services

Publisher

ACM

ISBN

9781595933034, 1595933034

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1160633.1160799

Copyright

Copyright © 2006 ACM. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Proceedings of AAMAS, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1160633.1160799.

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