Model‐to‐model and model‐to‐text: looking for the automation of VigilAgent

Abstract

VigilAgent is a methodology for the development of agent-oriented monitoring applications that uses agents as the key abstraction elements of the involved models. It has not been developed from scratch, but it reuses fragments from Prometheus and INGENIAS methodologies for modelling tasks and the ICARO framework for implementation purposes. As VigilAgent intends to automate as much as possible the development process, it exploits. Model transformation techniques are one of the key aspects of the model-driven development approach. A model-to-model transformation is used to facilitate the interoperability between Prometheus and INGENIAS methodologies. Also, a model-to-text transformation is performed to generate ICARO code from the INGENIAS model. A case study based on access control is used to illustrate the fundamentals of the model-to-model and model-to-text transformations implemented in VigilAgent.

Interoperability of MAS DSMLs via horizontal model transformations

“…The generated model conforms to the specification of DSML4MAS's abstract syntax, so it can be handled with DSML4MAS's graphical editor 10 . To visualize the instance 10 The IDE of DSML4MAS is available at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dsml4mas/ (last access: June 2016) model in DSML4MAS, the only thing needed is to add the related graphical notations to the generated instance model.…”

“…To visualize the instance 10 The IDE of DSML4MAS is available at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dsml4mas/ (last access: June 2016) model in DSML4MAS, the only thing needed is to add the related graphical notations to the generated instance model. The screenshot given in Fig.…”

“…To the best of our knowledge, the work herein is the first effort on the interoperability of the MAS DSMLs and it is the first study in AOSE which employs horizontal model transformations to enable this interoperability. It is worth indicating that apart from our proposal, only the work conducted in [10] considers the application of horizontal transformations. However, that study just provides the transformation between the metamodels of two specific AOSE methodologies (Prometheus and INGENIAS) to realize MAS implementation on exactly one agent deployment platform and does not consider MAS DSML interoperability or language extensibility on various agent platforms.…”

“…[4][5][6][7]), which include fundamental entities and relations of agent systems. In addition, many model-driven agent development approaches are provided such as [8][9][10] and by enriching MAS metamodels with some defined syntax and semantics (usually translational semantics [11]), researchers also propose domain-specific languages (DSLs) / domain- This study is funded by the Scientific Research Projects Directorate of Ege University under grant 16-UBE-001. specific modeling languages (DSMLs) (e.g.…”

Designing rule‐based expert systems with the aid of the model‐driven development approach

“…The MDD is an approach in software engineering that offers a methodological basis for the development of software through transformations and interpretations of information models. There are already successful examples of its implementation in the case of database applications (e.g., ECO, for Enterprise Core Objects), agent‐oriented monitoring applications (Gascueña, Navarro, Fernández‐Caballero, & Martínez‐Tomás, ), and embedded systems (software components) for the internet and other uses (Canadas, Palma, & Tunez, ; Distante, Pedone, Rossi, & Canfora, ; Dunstan, ; Nofal & Fouad, ).…”