A New Perspective on Multi-Agent Environment with SARL

Abstract The environment is now considered as a first class abstraction in multiagent systems. However, the boundary between real and simulated environment and the application logic is not so well defined. Depending on applications, the environment as a space shared between agents may integrate physical, communication or social dimensions where agents interact. In this paper, authors introduce an agent environment model supporting the intrasic distributed and hierarchical natures of the environment. It is defined using the fundamental concepts provided by metamodel related to the SARL programming language.

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