Facilitating the specification capture and transformation process in the development of multi-agent systems

  • Authors:

  • Aluízio Haendchen Filho;Nuno Caminada;Edward Hermann Haeusler;Arndt von Staa

  • Affiliations:

  • Departamento de Informática, PUC-Rio– Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil;UniverCidade – Centro Universitário da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro (UniverCidade/NUPAC);Departamento de Informática, PUC-Rio– Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil;Departamento de Informática, PUC-Rio– Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil

  • Venue:
  • FAABS'04 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

To support the development of flexible and reusable MAS, we have built a framework designated MAS-CF. MAS-CF is a component framework that implements a layered architecture based on contextual composition. Interaction rules, controlled by architecture mechanisms, ensure very low coupling, making possible the sharing of distributed services in a transparent, dynamic and independent way. These properties propitiate large-scale reuse, since organizational abstractions can be reused and propagated to all instances created from a framework. The objective is to reduce complexity and development time of multi-agent systems through the reuse of generic organizational abstractions.