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A Generative Approach for Multi-agent System Development

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Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems III (SELMAS 2004)

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The development of Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) involves special concerns, such as interaction, adaptation, autonomy, among others. Many of these concerns are overlapping, crosscut each other and the agent’s basic functionality. Over the last few years, several methodologies and implementation frameworks have been proposed to support agent-oriented software engineering. Although these approaches have brought some benefits to improve the productivity and quality on the MAS development, they present some restrictions. First, agent-oriented methodologies are too high level and do not indicate how to master the complexity of MAS concerns based on the object-oriented abstractions. Second, implementation frameworks provide object-oriented APIs for MAS development without providing guidelines for the modularization of agent concerns. Moreover, neither of the proposed agent oriented-approaches deals with the modeling and implementation of agent crosscutting concerns. This paper presents a generative approach for the development of MASs that addresses these restrictions. The proposed approach explores the MAS domain to enable the code generation of heterogeneous agent architectures. Aspect-oriented techniques are used to allow the modeling of crosscutting agent features. The generative approach brings several benefits to the code generation and modeling of agent crosscutting features since early development stages.

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  1. PUC-Rio, Computer Science Department, LES, SoC+Agents Group, Rua Marques de São Vicente, 225, 22453-900, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

    Uirá Kulesza, Alessandro Garcia & Carlos Lucena

  2. Computer Science Department, Computer System Group, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada

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  2. Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

    Alessandro Garcia

  3. Computer Science Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Carlos Lucena

  4. Computer Science School, Newcastle University, UK

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Kulesza, U., Garcia, A., Lucena, C., Alencar, P. (2005). A Generative Approach for Multi-agent System Development. In: Choren, R., Garcia, A., Lucena, C., Romanovsky, A. (eds) Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems III. SELMAS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3390. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31846-0_4

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