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Model based testing for agent systems

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Zhiyong Zhang,

John Thangarajah,

Lin PadghamAuthors Info & Claims

AAMAS '09: Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2

Pages 1333 - 1334

Published: 10 May 2009 Publication History

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The use of agent technology for building complex systems is increasing, and there are compelling reasons to use this technology. Benfield [1] showed a productivity gain of over 300% using a BDI (Belief Desire Intention) agent approach, while other work calculated that a very modest plan and goal structure provides well over a million ways to achieve a given goal, providing enormous flexibility in a modular manner.

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AAMAS '09: Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2

May 2009

730 pages

ISBN:9780981738178

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Carles Sierra
Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of the Spanish Research Council (Spain)
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Cristiano Castelfranchi
ISTC-CNR (Italy)
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Keith S. Decker
University of Delaware
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Jaime Simão Sichman
Politecnic School, University of São Paulo (Brazil)

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