A Need for Biologically Inspired Architectural Description: The Agent Ontogenesis Case
Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems
A survey on the implementation of agent oriented specifications
AOSE'10 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Agent-oriented software engineering
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Autonomic systems are typically distributed, complex and concurrent systems, comprised of multiple interacting autonomic elements that often exhibit emergent behavior. Design and development of such systems is a non-trivial task that by definition requires specific software engineering approaches, including the use of specialized modeling techniques. This paper takes the well-known Prospecting Asteroids Mission from NASA, an autonomous and autonomic system for future exploration of asteroid fields, which can be considered as a axiomatic example of how autonomic principles can be applied in real terms. Introducing the Agent Modeling Language (AML), we demonstrate using a series of didactic examples how AML can be applied to efficiently, accurately and comprehensively model the PAM system. A selection of AML models specifying the PAM domain, goals, architecture, and behaviors are presented which help demonstrate the utility of AML when modeling autonomous and autonomic systems.