MASDynamics: Toward Systemic Modeling of Decentralized Agent Coordination

摘要: Enabling distributed software systems to purposefully self-organize, i.e. adapt dynamically changing execution contexts by the collective adjustment of individual components, challenges current development practices. Since dynamics self-organizing arise from agent coaction, developers cannot directly infer macroscopic system behavior established design models. This paper plays a part in an ongoing research effort that addresses provision processes as elements, reusable patterns interrelations. We propose systemic modeling approach and support application independent description (inter-) coordination domain specific language allows map interrelations activity detailed facilitates separation decentralized strategies implementations enables teams treat nature-inspired strategies, which steer dynamics, concepts. In addition, we show how this conception provides declarative programming automated supplementation conventional developed models with non-linear, inter-agent mechanisms.