Multi-agent systems for a certain application area can be modeled at multiple levels of abstraction.Interlevel relations are a means to relate models from different abstraction levels.Three dimensions of abstraction o...Multi-agent systems for a certain application area can be modeled at multiple levels of abstraction.Interlevel relations are a means to relate models from different abstraction levels.Three dimensions of abstraction often occurring are the process abstraction,temporal abstraction,and agent cluster abstraction dimension.In this paper a unifying formalization is presented that can be used as a framework to specify interlevel relations for any of such dimensions.The approach is illustrated by showing how a variety of different types of abstraction relations between multi-agent system models can be formally specified in a unified manner.展开更多
文摘Multi-agent systems for a certain application area can be modeled at multiple levels of abstraction.Interlevel relations are a means to relate models from different abstraction levels.Three dimensions of abstraction often occurring are the process abstraction,temporal abstraction,and agent cluster abstraction dimension.In this paper a unifying formalization is presented that can be used as a framework to specify interlevel relations for any of such dimensions.The approach is illustrated by showing how a variety of different types of abstraction relations between multi-agent system models can be formally specified in a unified manner.
