2. Problems arising in the design of multi-agent systems

2.1 Agent specification

The difficulty of specifying the notion of agent is currently unavoidable, since this notion is generic. However, in this paragraph we will attempt to highlight the main characteristics required to design these agents. These characteristics are :

• the desired level of granularity ;

• the agent's own identity;

• and, depending on the information manipulated and its own identity, we will then try to propose some elements on the...