<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The paper presents general guidelines for designing affective multi-agent systems (affective MASs). The guidelines aim at extending the existing agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) methodologies to enable them to design affective MASs. The reason why affective mechanisms need specific attention during the design is the fact that the way how both rational tasks and interactions are done differ based on the affective state of the agents. Thus, the paper extends the traditional design approaches with the design of affective mechanisms and includes them in the design of the system as a whole.</p></abstract>

The paper presents general guidelines for designing affective multi-agent systems (affective MASs). The guidelines aim at extending the existing agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) methodologies to enable them to design affective MASs. The reason why affective mechanisms need specific attention during the design is the fact that the way how both rational tasks and interactions are done differ based on the affective state of the agents. Thus, the paper extends the traditional design approaches with the design of affective mechanisms and includes them in the design of the system as a whole.

General Guidelines for Design of Affective Multi-Agent Systems

Applied Computer Systems

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The paper presents general guidelines for designing affective multi-agent systems (affective MASs). The guidelines aim at extending the existing agent-oriented...

General Guidelines for Design of Affective Multi-Agent Systems

Published Online: Dec 27, 2017

Page range: 5 - 12

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/acss-2017-0012

Keywords
Affective computing, affective multi-agent system, agent-oriented software engineering, multi-agent system design

© 2017 Māra Pudāne et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

General Guidelines for Design of Affective Multi-Agent Systems

Published Online: Dec 27, 2017

Page range: 5 - 12

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/acss-2017-0012

KeywordsAffective computing, affective multi-agent system, agent-oriented software engineering, multi-agent system design

© 2017 Māra Pudāne et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Affective computing, affective multi-agent system, agent-oriented software engineering, multi-agent system design