Task: Identify Environment Model
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Purpose
The purpose of this task to make explicit the characteristics of the environment in which the MAS-to-be will be immersed.
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      Process Usage
      Main Description
      See Developing multiagent systems: The Gaia methodology for more information about how to defining an Environment Model.
      Steps
      Devising environment characteristics
      Representing environment characteristics
      Represent  environment characteristics in terms of abstract computational resources , such as variables and tuples, made available to the agents for sensing (as reading their values), for effecting (as changing their values)  or for consuming (as extracting them from the environment
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