Multi-agent and software architectures: a comparative case study

Authors:
Paolo Giorgini;Manuel Kolp;John Mylopoulos
Affiliations:
Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Trento, Trento, Italy;IAG School of Management, University of Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium;Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Venue:
AOSE'02 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Agent-oriented software engineering III
Year:
2002

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Abstract

We propose a collection of architectural styles for multi-agent systems motivated by organizational theory and enterprise organization structures. One of the styles is discussed in detail and part of it is formalized using the Formal Tropos specification language. In addition, we conduct a comparative study of organizational and conventional software architectures using a mobile robot control example from the Software Engineering literature.