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Building Self-adaptive Systems by Adaptation Patterns Integrated into Agent Methodologies

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Adopting patterns, i.e. reusable solutions to generic problems, turns out to be useful to rely on tested solutions and to avoid reinventing the wheel. To this aim, we proposed to use adaptation patterns to build systems that exhibit self-adaptive features. However, these patterns would be more usable if integrated in a methodology exploited to develop a system. In this paper we show how our Catalogue of adaptation patterns can be integrated into methodologies for adaptive systems; more in detail, we consider methodologies which support the development of multi-agent systems that can be considered good examples of adaptive systems. The paper, in particular, shows the integration of our Catalogue of adaptive patterns into the PASSI methodology, together with the graphical tool that we developed to support it.

M. Puviani—The work is supported by the “Linea strategica SMART ICT FOR SMART SOCIAL WORLDS” of the Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia.

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    http://www.whitestein.com/adem.

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    Mobility and Adaptation-enabling Middleware, supported by the European Union under research grant 004159 lasting from September 2004 to March 2007.

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    Self-Adapting Applications for Mobile Users in Ubiquitous Computing Environments, supported by the European Union under research grant IST-035166 lasting from October 2006 to March 2010.

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Puviani, M., Cabri, G., Capodieci, N., Leonardi, L. (2015). Building Self-adaptive Systems by Adaptation Patterns Integrated into Agent Methodologies. In: Duval, B., van den Herik, J., Loiseau, S., Filipe, J. (eds) Agents and Artificial Intelligence. ICAART 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9494. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27947-3_4

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