Model-Driven Architecture for Agent-Based Systems

Gračanin, Denis; Singh, H. Lally; Bohner, Shawn A.; Hinchey, Michael G.

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-30960-4_17

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“…Current technologies, however, may not fully support the MDA's complex transformation rules: for instance, UML, which is one of MDA's foundations, lacks the required precision and formalisation [12].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Further research efforts are being devoted to integrating MDA and AOSE [1,12]. By applying the MDA principles, the design model obtained from an agent-oriented methodology can be considered as a PIM, the target MAS agent platform as the PSM, and the mapping between the two can be given by the transformations defined for the selected agent platform.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Situated process engineering for integrating processes from methodologies to infrastructures

Molesini

Denti

Nardini

et al. 2009

Proceedings of the 2009 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

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In the field of Multi-Agent Systems (MASs), methodologies and infrastructures have developed in the last years along two opposite paths: while Agent-Oriented methodologies have essentially undergone a top-down evolution, MAS infrastructures have mostly followed a bottom-up path, producing a conceptual gap between methodologies and the available agent infrastructures. This paper aims at defining a method for filling such a gap, based on Situational Method Engineering (SME) and SPEM (Software Process Engineering Meta-model).After highlighting the lack of sufficient research and understanding about the role of the infrastructures in the software engineering process, we show that infrastructures, like methodologies, have processes behind them, and propose a method based on the integration of the processes underpinning both methodologies and infrastructures. Then, we validate such an approach by showing how the process of the SODA methodology can be integrated with the process of the TuCSoN infrastructure using SME and SPEM.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Situated process engineering for integrating processes from methodologies to infrastructures

Molesini

Denti

Nardini

et al. 2009

Proceedings of the 2009 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

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“…The Cougaar MDA introduced in Ref. 62 provides a higher application composition for agent systems by elevating the composition level from individual components to domain level model specifications in order to generate software artifacts.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Model Driven Development of Semantic Web Enabled Multi-Agent Systems

Kardaş

Göknil

Dikenelli

et al. 2009

Int. J. Coop. Info. Syst.

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Semantic Web evolution brought a new vision into agent research. The interpretation of this second generation web will be realized by autonomous computational entities, called agents, to handle the semantic content on behalf of their human users. Surely, Semantic Web environment has specific architectural entities and a different semantic which must be considered to model a Multi-agent System (MAS) within this environment. Hence, in this study, we introduce a MAS development process which supports the Semantic Web environment. Our approach is based on Model Driven Development (MDD) which aims to change the focus of software development from code to models. We first define an architecture for Semantic Web enabled MASs and then provide a MAS metamodel which consists of the first class meta-entities derived from this architecture. We also define a model transformation process for MDD of such MASs. We present a complete transformation process in which the source and the target metamodels, entity mappings between models and the implementation of the transformation for two different real MAS frameworks by using a well-known model transformation language are all included. In addition to the model-to-model transformation, the implementation of the model-tocode transformation is given as the last step of the system development process. The evaluation of the proposed development process by considering its use within the scope of a real commercial software project is also discussed.

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“…We use a framework based on the Cougaar ModelDriven Architecture (CMDA),to describe the automatic application generation [14,15]. CMDA prescribes the kinds of models to be used, how those models may be prepared, and relationships between the various kinds of models.…”

Section: Cmda Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%