An expressway from agent-oriented models to prototypes

  • Authors:
  • Kuldar Taveter;Leon Sterling

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia;Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia

  • Venue:
  • AOSE'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Agent-oriented software engineering VIII
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Agent-oriented software engineering can be viewed as applyingsoftware engineering principles to agent-oriented development orapplying agent-oriented principles to software engineering. In this paper,we are more concerned with the second view. We describe how prototypesystems can be efficiently created from agent-oriented domain and designmodels. We propose a conceptual space that accommodates modeltransformations described by the Model-Driven Architecture.We explainagent-oriented domain models and platform-independent design modelsand show how the first can be mapped to the latter. We demonstratehow design models can be turned into the implementation of an agent-based prototype on a specific platform. The approach has potential foraccelerating the process of rapid prototyping.