Coordination for situated MAS: Towards an event-driven architecture

Abstract

Complex software systems modelled as multi-agent systems (MAS) are characterised by activities that are generated either by agents, or by the environment in its most general acceptation-that is, environmental resources and the spatio-temporal fabric. Modelling and engineering complex multi-agent systems (MAS) - such as pervasive, adaptive, and situated MAS - requires then to properly handle diverse classes of events: agent operations, resource events, spatio-temporal situation. In the following, first we devise out the requirements for a software architecture for an agent-based middleware based on boundary artefacts, then we sketch a concrete architecture based on the TuCSoN middleware for MAS coordination.