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Debugging BDI-Based Multi-Agent Programs

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Programming Multi-Agent Systems (ProMAS 2009)

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The development of multi-agent programs requires debugging tools and techniques to find and resolve possible defects in such programs. This paper focuses on BDI-based multi-agent programs, discusses some existing debugging approaches that are developed for specific BDI-based multi-agent programming languages, and proposes a generic and systematic approach for debugging BDI-based multi-agent programs. The proposal consists of an assertion language to specify cognitive and temporal behavior of multi-agent programs and a set of debugging tools. The assertions can be assigned to the debugging tools which will be activated as soon as the execution of a multi-agent program satisfies the assertion.

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    Mehdi Dastani, Jaap Brandsema, Amco Dubel & John-Jules Ch. Meyer

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Dastani, M., Brandsema, J., Dubel, A., Meyer, JJ.C. (2010). Debugging BDI-Based Multi-Agent Programs. In: Braubach, L., Briot, JP., Thangarajah, J. (eds) Programming Multi-Agent Systems. ProMAS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5919. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14843-9_10

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