Towards a guide for engineering the collective behaviour of a MAS

The objective of the work undertaken here is to endow an agent-oriented methodology with a semi-automatic tool for helping designers when drawing up the agents composing an adaptive multi-agent system (AMAS). This tool acts as a guide for enabling designers to influence the emergent global behaviour of an AMAS by acting on the local behaviour of its cooperative agents. The preliminary approach proposed in this article can be seen as a feasibility study aiming at developing a textual guide by considering the principles of the AMAS theory. Simulation of the behaviour of healthy and cancerous cells is used as a base for this study.