A pattern-oriented design agent

This research adopts “A Pattern Language” as a basis, proposed by Christopher Alexander, an architectural theorist who thinks a designer can extend more design patterns if he can pass on the developed design knowledge and accumulate the results. On the other hand, the Agent-Oriented Design is a new generation method of programming design that mainly uses the script language as a basis for development and that is suitable to design the multi-agent application system. Based on the above research background, each “spatial object” in the space defined in this research is called “agent”, and the so-called “pattern” refers to “a feasible way of assembly among agents of spatial objects”. A pattern can be regarded as the one similar to “the concept of script function”. Supposing each agent of spatial object can have its own behavioral mechanism, “coordinative agents” responsible for coordinative function of behavior need to be added if excellent coordination is required for action dependencies among the agents when a script function is executed; that is, to complete a “design goal”. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to propose “a communicative and coordinative mechanism of agents of spatial objects” by establishing this pattern-oriented design agent.