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Complex Responsive Processes in a Multi-Agent System: A Knowledge Accelerator

Authors:
Guido Willemsen
Luis Correia
Marco Janssen

Keywords: Complex Responsive Processes of Relating; MAPE-K; Multi-Agent Systems; Complex Adaptive Systems; Beer Game

Abstract:
Complex Responsive Processes (CRP) focus on the interaction between agents, where they exchange knowledge, opinions, experience, and values. In decentralized decision making, this could accelerate the monitoring, analysis, planning and execution process, as defined in a control mechanism like MAPE-K. For Multi-Agent Systems with a decentralized or hybrid architecture the gesture (e.g., agent expression) and response dynamics of complex responsive interaction could be valuable to reduce the entropy of a system. Until today, the CRP mechanisms have not been formalized in Multi-Agent decentralized decision making as it lacks a formal model to express inter-agent dialectics. This position paper discloses the area where an extension of the MAPE-K control cycle can be made to include the formalized CRP processes. This extension consists of a set of methods that include the responsive processes of multiple agents and will be used to update the Knowledge base in the MAPE-K model.

Pages: 14 to 21

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2022

Publication date: April 24, 2022

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4146

ISBN: 978-1-61208-951-5

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from April 24, 2022 to April 28, 2022