An extended approach for the behavioral and temporal constraints specification of reactive agent

Reactive Muti-Agent System (RMAS) provides efficient mechanism for modeling, decision-making and problem solving for complex systems. However, there is a crucial lack concerning building a specification method facilitating the designer to take into account the fundamental properties of reactive systems, which are concurrency, temporal constraints and reliability. This paper proposes to extend the Multi Decisional Reactive Agent (MDRA) approach, which is mainly focusing on reactive system, by providing mechanisms to specify temporal constraints as well as three operations mode in agent behavior, namely, normal, degraded and full-fault tolerance. © 2015 IEEE.