Integrity of multi-agent systems

Departing from earlier presenting formal models of an agent and multiagent system, definition of integrity of the multi-agent system, considered as - analyzed a priori - ability to attain the established global goal is proposed in the paper. The problem of integrity can be detailed in several ways. Two of them (basic ones) are thoroughly discussed, There are functional integrity where the question is possibility to combine elementary actions of the agents into desired behaviour of the whole system and resource-oriented integrity that focuses on ability of the agents, but at the system level, to produce some repertoire of resources sustaining limited consumption of others. Copyright (C) 1999 IFAC.