Compositional specification and reuse of a generic cooperative agent model

Abstract

In this paper one of the informally described models of agent co-operation (Jennings, 1995) has been used to develop and formally specify a generic model of a co-operative agent (GCAM). The compositional development method for multi-agent systems DESIRE supported the principled design of this model of cooperation. To illustrate reusability of the generic model, two application domains have been addressed: collaborative engineering design, and Call Center support.