Specification of interlevel relations for agent models in multiple abstraction dimensions

  • Authors:
  • Jan Treur

  • Affiliations:
  • VU University Amsterdam, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • IEA/AIE'11 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Industrial engineering and other applications of applied intelligent systems conference on Modern approaches in applied intelligence - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Multiagent systems for a certain application area can be modelled 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 formalisation 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.