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Recent development in the field of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) has attracted researchers from various fields with new techniques rapidly emerging. Due to its multi-disciplinary nature, it is not surprising that proposed theories and research results in the field are not coherent and hard to integrate. In this paper we propose a functional decomposition of problem solving activities to serve as a framework to assist MAS designers in their selection and integration of different techniques and existing research results according to their system requirements. The basic phases include agent organization construction, plan generation, task allocation, plan integration, and plan execution. An example usage of the proposed model for the domain of naval radar frequency management is also presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]