PuLSE-DSSA—a method for the development of software reference architectures
ISAW '98 Proceedings of the third international workshop on Software architecture
An agent-based approach for building complex software systems
Communications of the ACM
The 4+1 View Model of Architecture
IEEE Software
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Software Architecture in Practice
The Rational Unified Process: An Introduction
The Rational Unified Process: An Introduction
Development and specification of a reference model for agent-based systems
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews
BAT2XML: XML-based Java Bytecode Representation
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
A reference architecture for situated multiagent systems
E4MAS'06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Environments for multi-agent systems III
An agent framework for agent societies
Proceedings of the compilation of the co-located workshops on DSM'11, TMC'11, AGERE!'11, AOOPES'11, NEAT'11, & VMIL'11
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The slow adoption of agent-oriented methodologies as a paradigm for developing industry systems is due in part to their lack of integration and general-purpose use. There exists a need to define common patterns, relationships between components, and structural qualities that a reference architecture for agent-based systems would solve. However, there is little, if any, consensus on how to create a reference architecture for agent-based systems. This paper presents a methodology for developing a reference architecture that documents agent-based systems from different system viewpoints. Rather than the traditional approach of studying existing systems, the documentation methodology relies on forensic software analysis of agent frameworks (i.e., APIs and libraries for constructing agent systems). We demonstrate the methodology by describing the process used to create the Agent System Reference Architecture.