Communication and cooperation in agent systems: a pragmatic theory
Communication and cooperation in agent systems: a pragmatic theory
Building application frameworks: object-oriented foundations of framework design
Building application frameworks: object-oriented foundations of framework design
Object-oriented framework and product lines
Proceedings of the first conference on Software product lines : experience and research directions: experience and research directions
JADE: a FIPA2000 compliant agent development environment
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Role Modeling for Agent System Analysis, Design, and Implementation
IEEE Concurrency
AOSE '01 Revised Papers and Invited Contributions from the Second International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering II
A Customizable Coordination Service for Autonomous Agents
ATAL '97 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents IV, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
TAC-03: a supply-chain trading competition
AI Magazine
First International Workshop on Theory and Practice of Open Computational Systems
WETICE '03 Proceedings of the Twelfth International Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
Refinement operators to facilitate the reuse of interaction laws in open multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems
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Governance means that specifications are enforced dynamically at application runtime. Governance framework is a technique to design and implement an extensible interaction specification for a family of open systems. This specification can be refined for particular applications. We based this proposal on object-oriented framework concepts and adapted them for distributed agents and interactions. A governance framework structures the extensions of open system instances as variations in interactions among agents, defined as templates. Templates are used to gather core implementation and extension points. Extension points are "hooks" that will be customized to implement an instance of the governance framework. During framework instantiation, templates are refined to concrete interaction specification. As a proof of concept experiment, in this paper we propose a framework for instantiating supply chain management applications as open systems.