Systems and methods for automatic creation of agent-based systems

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions configured to cause a computing device comprising a processor and memory to perform a method, the method comprising:

• deriving a canonical model from an agent specification, the canonical model comprising an ontological mapping between a task specified in the agent specification and one or more concepts within an ontology, wherein each of the one or more concepts comprises a vertex connected to one or more other concepts in an ontological graph;
• selecting a plurality of candidate transforms based on the one or more ontological concepts of the canonical model;
• iteratively modifying the plurality of candidate transforms until a termination criteria is satisfied by one or more of adding one or more transforms to the plurality of candidate transforms and removing one or more transforms from the plurality of candidate transforms;
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• constructing an agent-based system from a selected plurality of the modified candidate transforms responsive to satisfying the termination criteria.

A method performed by a computing device comprising a processor and memory for constructing an agent-based system, the method comprising:

• deriving a canonical model from an agent specification by mapping a task defined in the agent specification to one or more ontological concepts stored in an ontology embodied on a computer-readable storage medium, wherein the ontology is embodied as a graph comprising a plurality of interconnected concepts, each concept being connected to one or more related concepts by one or more graph edges;
• selecting a set of candidate transforms using the canonical model, the set of candidate transforms configured to perform the task defined in the agent specification;
• iteratively modifying the set of candidate transforms to produce a plurality of alternative sets of candidate transforms until a termination criteria is satisfied, wherein each of the alternative sets is configured to perform the task defined in the agent specification, and wherein each of the alternative sets is assigned a respective fitness metric, wherein modifying the set comprises one or more of adding one or more transforms to the set and removing one or more transforms from the set;
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• generating an agent-based system using a selected one of the alternative sets of candidate transforms responsive to satisfying the termination criteria.