A model for composite system design

Composite systems are systems that encompass multiple agents involved in ongoing, interactive activities. The authors study requirements acquisition, specification and design of such systems. The research objective is a model that encompasses this entire design activity, and thereafter, techniques and tools called for by the model, which will serve to provide automated assistance to a skilled designer of composite systems. The authors outline the proposed model that they have established so far, together with the experimental pieces of technology that they are assembling