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Brahms is a multi-agent modeling language for simulating human work practice that emerges from work processes in organizations. The same Brahms language can be used to implement and execute distributed multi-agent systems, based on models of work practice that were first simulated. Brahms demonstrates how a multi-agent belief-desire-intention language, symbolic cognitive modeling, traditional business process modeling, activity-and situated cognition theories are brought together in a coherent approach for analysis and design of organizations and human-centered systems.
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Brahms development started in 1992 as a collaboration between the former R&D center of the then NYNEX corporation (NYNEX Science and Technology) and the former Institute for Research on Learning (IRL), a spin off of Xerox PARC. Since 1998, Brahms has been developed and used by the Work Systems Design and Evaluation group in NASA Ames’ Intelligent Systems division. We thank all our NYNEX, IRL and NASA funders over the past sixteen years. In particular, we like to thank Jim Euchner (NYNEX) and Mike Shafto (NASA) for their continued support of Brahms and our Brahms research team.
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Sierhuis, M., Clancey, W.J., van Hoof, R.J. (2009). Brahms An Agent-Oriented Language for Work Practice Simulation and Multi-Agent Systems Development. In: El Fallah Seghrouchni, A., Dix, J., Dastani, M., Bordini, R. (eds) Multi-Agent Programming. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-89299-3_3
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