Foundations for the study of software architecture
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Software architecture: perspectives on an emerging discipline
Software architecture: perspectives on an emerging discipline
Towards a taxonomy of software connectors
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Software engineering
Software Architecture in Practice
Software Architecture in Practice
AMELI: An Agent-Based Middleware for Electronic Institutions
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
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International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Artifacts in the A&A meta-model for multi-agent systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
A Web-Based Virtual Machine for Developing Computational Societies
CIA '08 Proceedings of the 12th international workshop on Cooperative Information Agents XII
The agent environment in multi-agent systems: A middleware perspective
Multiagent and Grid Systems - Engineering Environments in Multiagent Systems
"The Golden Age of Software Architecture" Revisited
IEEE Software
Run-Time Semantics of a Language for Programming Social Processes
Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems
A reference architecture for situated multiagent systems
E4MAS'06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Environments for multi-agent systems III
Dealing with incomplete normative states
COIN'09 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems
Programming multiagent systems without programming agents
ProMAS'09 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Programming multi-agent systems
Programming social middleware through social interaction types
LADS'09 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Languages, Methodologies, and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems
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This paper attempts to provide an architectural foundation to multiagent societies through a systematic application of the notion of software connector. It shows that multiagent societies can be explained as a Component & Connector architectural style, made up of high-level connectors defined in terms of common normative, communicative and organizational abstractions. This is expected to yield a better alignment of agent technology with mainstream software engineering practice and conventional architectural styles. Moreover, we show that connectors are a powerful metaphor for the design of organizational and communicative abstractions. Last, the paper challenges a common architectural assumption, namely the application-independence of software connectors.