Model-driven architecture for agent-based systems

  • Authors:

  • Denis Gračanin;H. Lally Singh;Shawn A. Bohner;Michael G. Hinchey

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA;Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA;Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA;NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD

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

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Abstract

The Model Driven Architecture (MDA) approach uses a platform-independent model to define system functionality, or requirements, using some specification language. The requirements are then translated to a platform-specific model for implementation. An agent architecture based on the human cognitive model of planning, the Cognitive Agent Architecture (Cougaar) is selected for the implementation platform. The resulting Cougaar MDA prescribes certain kinds of models to be used, how those models may be prepared and the relationships of the different kinds of models. Using the existing Cougaar architecture, the level of application composition is elevated from individual components to domain level model specifications in order to generate software artifacts. The software artifacts generation is based on a metamodel. Each component maps to a UML structured component which is then converted into multiple artifacts: Cougaar/Java code, documentation, and test cases.