Toward a new aspect-mining approach for multi-agent systems

Zerrougui, Salim; Mokhati, Farid; Badri, Mourad

doi:10.1016/j.jss.2014.08.030

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“…In fact, the present work is in a sense related to work done by Zerrougui et al (Zerrougui et al, 2014), because aspect mining and refactoring are two complementary research areas. In MAS development, aspect mining focuses on extraction of candidate code fragments implementing MAS specific crosscutting concerns (i.e.…”

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“…Zerrougui et al (Zerrougui et al, 2014) have proposed a hybrid aspect mining approach based on combination of dynamic and static analyzes for extracting candidate code fragments from an existing multi-agent application code corresponding to the MAS cross-cutting concerns. The main motivations of this work are: (1) identifying cross-cutting concerns in existing agentoriented code, and (2) making them explicitly available to software engineers involved in the evolution of agent-oriented code in order to facilitate its refactoring and, consequently, to improve its understandability, reusability and maintainability.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Assessing the Effect of Aspect Refactoring on Multi-Agent Applications

Chebout

Mokhati

Badri

2015

International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems

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Multi Agent Systems (MAS) are increasingly gaining importance as a powerful paradigm to designing and implementing distributed applications. However, existing multi-agent applications are developed without considering the separation of non-functional concerns from the functional ones. This makes the implementation, comprehension and maintenance of multi-agent applications hard tasks. Aspect-Oriented Refactoring (AOR) is a promising technique for improving modularity and reducing complexity of existing object oriented software systems by encapsulating crosscutting concerns. The authors present, in this paper, a new dynamic approach for investigating empirically the effect of AOR on MAS applications. They focus, particularly, on the effect of AOR on agent behavior in terms of communication. The proposed approach is supported by a multi-agent profiling tool working on AgentFactory platform.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Assessing the Effect of Aspect Refactoring on Multi-Agent Applications

Chebout

Mokhati

Badri

2015

International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems

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“…To succeed these purposes, cross-cutting concerns in existing agent-oriented code is identified, and the cross-cutting concerns are made available to software engineers to maintain and reuse. 9 Open multi-agent systems (Open MAS) that is no central authority can control all the agents have some common features such as heterogeneity, different aims and objectives, autonomy, and self-interest that conflicts individual goals and limited trust. To understand whether or not the system carries out its goals, it must be observed and controlled using Aspect Oriented PRohramming (AOP)-based approach for monitoring Open MAS.…”

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Agent-based target evaluation and fire doctrine: an aspect-oriented programming view

Hocaoğlu

2021

Journal of Defense Modeling & Simulation

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Threat evaluation is a vital process for any defense system, and it consists of a series of calculation and evaluation based on the inferred capabilities and intents of the targets that aim to give damage to defended assets. Target evaluation is proceeded in a wargame and the aim is to compare weapon target pairs according to a set of criteria. The target evaluation cycle is repeated anytime a new detection is received and when any change happens in the target currently detected. The whole process consists of a set of tasks that are shared between Command and Control units and the tasks require different responsibilities. Each task is succeeded by a specific behavior that is represented as a reasonably ordered set of actions. The task sharing is organized by taking the C2 architectures into account. In this paper, an agent-based command and control entity, which is in charge of target evaluation and giving engagement decision, is designed and it is situated in an air defense simulation environment. The study aims to propose an agent design in military decision-making domain, bringing analytic methods with the first-order logic together, and combine aspect orientation with agent design. The study also improves dynamic aspect management in agent programming using the relation concept.

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