Cooperative Multi-agent Approach for Computational Systems of Systems Architecting

Teddy Bouziat, Stéphanie Combettes, Valérie Camps, Jeremy Boes

2017

Abstract

This paper addresses the modeling and design of Systems of Systems (SoS). It presents and illustrates a new generic model to describe formally such systems. This model is used to propose a SoS architecting approach based on adaptive multi-agent systems. In this approach, each component system composing the SoS uses a local cooperative decision process in order to interact with other systems and to collectively give rise to a relevant overall function at the SoS level. The proposed model as well as the proposed approach are instantiated with a simulated unmanned aerial vehicle scenario and compared with another approach dealing with collaboration between systems in a SoS.

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Bouziat T., Combettes S., Camps V. and Boes J. (2017). Cooperative Multi-agent Approach for Computational Systems of Systems Architecting . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-219-6, pages 174-181. DOI: 10.5220/0006190101740181


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@conference{icaart17,
author={Teddy Bouziat and Stéphanie Combettes and Valérie Camps and Jeremy Boes},
title={Cooperative Multi-agent Approach for Computational Systems of Systems Architecting},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2017},
pages={174-181},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006190101740181},
isbn={978-989-758-219-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - Cooperative Multi-agent Approach for Computational Systems of Systems Architecting
SN - 978-989-758-219-6
AU - Bouziat T.
AU - Combettes S.
AU - Camps V.
AU - Boes J.
PY - 2017
SP - 174
EP - 181
DO - 10.5220/0006190101740181