On the development of multi-agent systems product lines: a domain engineering process

  • Authors:

  • Ingrid Nunes;Carlos J. P. de Lucena;Uirá Kulesza;Camila Nunes

  • Affiliations:

  • PUC-Rio, Computer Science Department, LES - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;PUC-Rio, Computer Science Department, LES - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, UFRN, - Natal, Brazil;PUC-Rio, Computer Science Department, LES - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • AOSE'10 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Agent-oriented software engineering
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Multi-agent System Product Lines (MAS-PLs) are the integration of two promising technologies: Multi-agent Systems (MASs), which provides a powerful abstraction to model features with autonomous and pro-active behavior, and Software Product Lines (SPLs), whose aimis to reduce both time-to-market and costs in the development of system families by the exploitation of commonalities among family members. This paper presents a domain engineering process for developing MAS-PLs. It defines activities and work products, whose purposes include allowing agent variability and providing agent features traceability, both not addressed by current SPL and MAS approaches.