Discrete-event modeling of multi-agent systems with broadcasting-based parallel composition |
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Authors: | Rong Su |
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Affiliation: | School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, Singapore |
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Abstract: | Multi-agent systems have been widely used in logistics and manufacturing. In this paper we develop an automaton-based modeling framework for a special type of multi-agent systems, where agents are instantiated from a finite number of finite-state automaton templates, and interactions among agents are characterized via cooperative synchronization and broadcasting. To describe the compositional behavior of all agents, we propose a novel broadcasting-based parallel composition rule and show that it is commutative and associative. The effectiveness of this modeling framework and the parallel composition rule is illustrated in a simple multi-agent system. |
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Keywords: | Multi-agent systems Finite-state automata Synchronous product Broadcasting-based parallel composition |
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