Abstract
Agents in teamwork may be highly interdependent on each other, the awareness of interdependence relationships is an important requirement for designing and consequently implementing a multi-agent system. In this work, we propose a formal graphical and domain-independent language that can facilitate the identification of comprehensive interdependences among the agents in teamwork. Moreover, a formal semantics is also introduced to precisely express and explain the properties of a graphical structure. The novel feature of the graphical language is that it complements the Interdependence Analysis Color Scheme in a way that explicitly models negative influences and, in addition, provides a visual-communication aid for developers. To demonstrate the applicability and sufficiency of the graphical language in a variety of domains, our case studies include a multi-robot scenario and a human-robot scenario.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 25-34 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | IEEE Intelligent Systems |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Sep 2019 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- Intelligent systems
- Logic gates
- Multi-agent systems
- Reliability
- Solids
- Teamwork
- Unified modeling language