Modeling Agent-Environment Interactions in Adaptive MAS

In this paper, we discuss a way to model Agent-Environment interactions in adaptive multi-agent systems. We describe the interactions at various levels of abstraction starting with the highest. For each level, we specify the interactions from four viewpoints functional, behavioral, dataand structural. This results into a set of models that capture the main properties of agent-environment interactions.

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