F.: Agent Design from the Autonomy Perspective

Abstract. The design and development of multiagent systems can take advantage of a 'multi-perspectives ' approach to system design, separately focusing and the design and evaluation of one (or of a few) specic fea-tures of the system-to-be. In this paper, we introduce the basic concepts underlying the multi-perspectives approach. Then, we take a specic look at agent autonomy and try sketch to a new specic perspective to deal with it.