Une expérience de conception et de composition de comportements d'agents à l'aide de composants

This paper relates an experience in using a component model to design and construct agents. After discussing various approaches for decomposing an agent architecture, we describe our component-based model of agents. In this model, named MALEVA, components encapsulate various units of agent behaviors (e.g., flee, follow gradient...). Among its specificities, we may note a notion of composite component, encapsulating behaviors constructed by assembling simpler behaviors, and an explicit notion of control flow between components (reified through specific control ports, connexions and components), for a fine grain control of activation and scheduling. Several design examples are presented in this paper.

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