Design Architecture of Multiagent Control System

While multi-agent systems seem to provide a good basis to build complex control system, the variety of agent-oriented(AO) methodologies may become a problem for developer when it comes to select the best-suited methodology for a given application domain. To resolve the difficulties, a development architecture is proposed to blend various AO methodologies, which will pave the way for a unified and general AO methodology. We demonstrate the usage of the suggested architecture by combing two classes representative AO methodologies: KE-extended (knowledge engineering) method and OO-extended (object-oriented) method. By means of the combination, the method can provide straightforward connections between KE analysis results and OO software implementation. Finally, a case study is illustrated to show how to apply this method.