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Multi-agent System Design for Dummies
Agent technology, a new paradigm in software engineering, has received
attention from research and industry since 1990s. However, it is still not used
widely to date because it requires expertise on both programming and agent
technology; gaps among requirements, agent design, and agent deployment also
pose more difficulties. Goal Net methodology attempts to solve these issues
with a goal-oriented approach that resembles human behaviours, and an agent
designer that supports agent development using this philosophy. However, there
are limitations on existing Goal Net Designer, the design and modelling
component of the agent designer. Those limitations, including limited access,
difficult deployment, inflexibility in user operations, design workflows
against typical Goal Net methodology workflows, and lack of data protection,
have inhibited widespread adoption of Goal Net methodology.
Motivated by this, this book focuses on improvements on Goal Net Designer. In
this project, Goal Net Designer is completely re-implemented using new
technology with optimised software architecture and design. It allows access
from all major desktop operating systems, as well as in web environment via all
modern browsers. Enhancements such as refined workflows, model validation tool,
access control, team collaboration tool, and link to compiler make Goal Net
Designer a fully functional and powerful Integrated Development Environment.
User friendliness and usability are greatly enhanced by simplifying user's
actions to accomplish their tasks. User behaviour logging and quantitative
feedback channel are also included to allow Goal Net Designer to continuously
evolve with the power of big data analytics in future. To evaluate the new Goal
Net Designer, a teachable agent has been developed with the help of Goal Net
Designer and the development process is illustrated in a case study.Comment: This is a book draf