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The design and development of multiagent systems can take advantage of a ‘multi-perspectives’ approach to system design, separately focusing and the design and evaluation of one (or of a few) specific features of the system-to-be. In this paper, we introduce the basic concepts underlying the multi-perspectives approach. Then, we take a specific look at agent autonomy and try to sketch a new specific perspective to deal with it.
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Cossentino, M., Zambonelli, F. (2004). Agent Design from the Autonomy Perspective. In: Nickles, M., Rovatsos, M., Weiss, G. (eds) Agents and Computational Autonomy. AUTONOMY 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2969. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25928-2_12
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