Living design for open computational systems

Jean-Pierre Georgé (1) , Gauthier Picard (1) , Marie-Pierre Gleizes (1) , Pierre Glize (1)

1 IRIT-SMAC - Systèmes Multi-Agents Coopératifs

Since open computational systems are complex and dynamic structures with a great (but unknown) number of autonomous interacting entities, designers face up to a difficult problem: how can they completely specify such systems? We call Living Design the biologically inspired solution we expound here and which consists of the observation and manipulation during the design phase of the system being built as it "lives". More formally, in terms of design methodology, we propose an object-agent overlapping processes shifting which is an extension and modification of the classical design phases. This is to be realized in our work-in-progress adaptive multi-agent system methodology called ADELFE, which is centered on the AMAS theory also briefly expounded here.

Mots clés: open computational system; interactive entity; cooperative system; self-organizing system; ADELFE; living design; dynamic structures; system design; object-agent overlapping processes shifting; AMAS theory

Domaines: Système multi-agents [cs.MA]

Jean-Pierre Georgé, Gauthier Picard, Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Pierre Glize. Living design for open computational systems. 11th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE 2003), 2003, Linz, Austria. pp.389-394, ⟨10.1109/ENABL.2003.1231442⟩. ⟨hal-01205630⟩