A Metamodel for Agents, Roles, and Groups

Odell, James; Nodine, Marian H.; Levy, Renato

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-30578-1_6

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“…They could be included by specializing more general FAML concepts. Literature from the following areas was relevant: agent software engineering (e.g., [16], [26], [32], [33]), AI (e.g., [34], [35], [36]), distributed AI (e.g., [37], [38], and cognitive science (e.g., [39]). The output of this step was a list of concepts pending succinct definition.…”

Section: Metamodel Creationmentioning

confidence: 99%

FAML: A Generic Metamodel for MAS Development

Beydoun

Low

Henderson‐Sellers

et al. 2009

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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In some areas of software engineering research, there are several metamodels claiming to capture the main issues. Though it is profitable to have variety at the beginning of a research field, after some time, the diversity of metamodels becomes an obstacle, for instance to the sharing of results between research groups. To reach consensus and unification of existing metamodels, metamodel-driven software language engineering can be applied. This paper illustrates an application of software language engineering in the agent-oriented software engineering research domain. Here, we introduce a relatively generic agent-oriented metamodel whose suitability for supporting modeling language development is demonstrated by evaluating it with respect to several existing methodology-specific metamodels. First, the metamodel is constructed by a combination of bottom-up and top-down analysis and best practice. The concepts thus obtained and their relationships are then evaluated by mapping to two agent-oriented metamodels: TAO and Islander. We then refine the metamodel by extending the comparisons with the metamodels implicit or explicit within five more extant agent-oriented approaches: Adelfe, PASSI, Gaia, INGENIAS, and Tropos. The resultant FAML metamodel is a potential candidate for future standardization as an important component for engineering an agent modeling language. Disciplines Physical Sciences and Mathematics Publication DetailsBeydoun, G., Low, G. Abstract-In some areas of software engineering research, there are several metamodels claiming to capture the main issues. Though it is profitable to have variety at the beginning of a research field, after some time, the diversity of metamodels becomes an obstacle, for instance to the sharing of results between research groups. To reach consensus and unification of existing metamodels, metamodel-driven software language engineering can be applied. This paper illustrates an application of software language engineering in the agent-oriented software engineering research domain. Here, we introduce a relatively generic agent-oriented metamodel whose suitability for supporting modeling language development is demonstrated by evaluating it with respect to several existing methodology-specific metamodels. First, the metamodel is constructed by a combination of bottom-up and top-down analysis and best practice. The concepts thus obtained and their relationships are then evaluated by mapping to two agent-oriented metamodels: TAO and Islander. We then refine the metamodel by extending the comparisons with the metamodels implicit or explicit within five more extant agent-oriented approaches: Adelfe, PASSI, Gaia, INGENIAS, and Tropos. The resultant FAML metamodel is a potential candidate for future standardization as an important component for engineering an agent modeling language.Index Terms-Modeling, metamodel, multiagent systems.

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Section: Metamodel Creationmentioning

confidence: 99%

FAML: A Generic Metamodel for MAS Development

Beydoun

Low

Henderson‐Sellers

et al. 2009

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

130

122

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“…AGR [5] describes an organization as a role-group structure imposed on agents and provides the basic foundational elements required in MASs to foster dynamic group formation and operation. Moise+ [4] is an organizational model that considers the structure, the functioning, and the deontic relation among them.…”

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“…Most of the agent organization frameworks (e.g., [4], [5]) support organizational changes as well, but rely on the actions of the agents themselves during operation. The question is why should system design merely "help" the agents creating an initial organizational structure while expecting them to react properly on sudden and significant changes in the environment afterwards.…”

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confidence: 99%

Agent-Based Multi-organizational Interaction Design: A Case Study of the Dutch Railway System

Jiang

Huisman

Dignum

2012

2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology

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Abstract-In multi-organizational alliances, inter-and intraorganizational interactions are performed in dynamic environments towards the cooperative goals. To adapt to such dynamics, not only should organizational design provide sufficient representation of organizational requirements, but also provide control mechanisms to switch between different contextual states as a response to an external change. OperA+, as an agent-based organization modeling framework, on the one hand, inherits the advantages of describing and analyzing complex relations between entities, and on the other hand, supports design, analysis and communication of organizational knowledge at multiple levels of abstraction in multiple contexts. This paper aims at a demonstration of OperA+ for an analysis and design study of the Dutch railway system in the domain of train maintenance which is expecting an organization evolution from the current system to a new design.

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“…Regarding agents, we studied well known agent models like AGR (Agent Group Role model) (Ferber et al, 2004, (Odell et al, 2004), MOCA (Model Organizational and Componential for Multi Agents) (Amiguet, 2003), MOISE/MOISE+ (Model of Organization for Multi Agent Systems) (Hannoun et al, 2000), OMNI (Organizational Model for Normative Institutions). We studied more recent agent models such as FAML (Beydoun and Low, 2009) and GORMAS (Argente et al, 2009), and some methodologies for Agent Oriented Software Engineering, like GAIA (Zambonelli et al, 2003) and PASSI (Cossentino, 2005).…”

Section: Studied Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Service-Oriented Integration of Component and Agent Models

Aboud

Cariou

Gouardères

et al. 2011

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software and Database Technologies

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Abstract:Multiagent systems and component-based systems are two mature approaches; each one owns strengths and weaknesses points. Our goal is to integrate these two approaches by reaching a high level of connectivity between them to overcome their shortages. The concept of service plays a key role in their interoperability. Indeed, the relations between these three domains are manifold. From a service perspective, agents and components are considered as service providers or consumers while services can be seen as their functional abstractions. Therefore, the concept of service as the interaction point between agents and component is the base of our integration approach. We will define a specification process composed of several models. They are dedicated to specify an application through several aspects: abstract services, components, agents and mix of them. In this paper, we present a global view of this process and three of its models: service, agent and component ones.

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A Metamodel for Agents, Roles, and Groups

Cited by 89 publications

References 3 publications

FAML: A Generic Metamodel for MAS Development

FAML: A Generic Metamodel for MAS Development

Agent-Based Multi-organizational Interaction Design: A Case Study of the Dutch Railway System

Service-Oriented Integration of Component and Agent Models

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