In the last years, research on agent-oriented (AO) methodologies and multi-agent system (MAS) infrastructures has developed along two opposite paths: while AO methodologies have essentially undergone a top-down evolution pushed by contributions from heterogeneous fields like human sciences, MAS infrastructures have mostly followed a bottom-up path growing from existing and widespread (typically ob ject-oriented) technologies. This dichotomy has produced a conceptual gap between the proposed AO methodologies and the agent infrastructures actually available, as well as a technical gap in the MAS engineering practice, where methodologies are often built ad hoc out of MAS infrastructures, languages and tools. This paper proposes a new method for filling the gap between methodologies and infrastructures based on the definition and study of the meta-models of both AO methodologies and MAS infrastructures. By allowing structural representation of abstractions to be captured along with their mutual relations, meta-models make it possible to map design-time abstractions from AO methodologies upon run-time abstractions from MAS technologies, thus promoting a more coherent and effective practice in MAS engineering. In order to validate our method, we take an AO methodology – SODA – and show how it can be mapped upon three different MAS infrastructures using meta-models as mapping guidelines.

From AOSE methodologies to MAS infrastructures: The SODA case study / Molesini Ambra; Denti Enrico; Omicini Andrea. - ELETTRONICO. - (2007), pp. 283-298. (Intervento presentato al convegno 8th International Workshop “Engineering Societies in the Agents World” (ESAW’07) tenutosi a Athens, Greece nel 22-24 ottobre 2007).

From AOSE methodologies to MAS infrastructures: The SODA case study

MOLESINI, AMBRA;DENTI, ENRICO;OMICINI, ANDREA
2007

Abstract

In the last years, research on agent-oriented (AO) methodologies and multi-agent system (MAS) infrastructures has developed along two opposite paths: while AO methodologies have essentially undergone a top-down evolution pushed by contributions from heterogeneous fields like human sciences, MAS infrastructures have mostly followed a bottom-up path growing from existing and widespread (typically ob ject-oriented) technologies. This dichotomy has produced a conceptual gap between the proposed AO methodologies and the agent infrastructures actually available, as well as a technical gap in the MAS engineering practice, where methodologies are often built ad hoc out of MAS infrastructures, languages and tools. This paper proposes a new method for filling the gap between methodologies and infrastructures based on the definition and study of the meta-models of both AO methodologies and MAS infrastructures. By allowing structural representation of abstractions to be captured along with their mutual relations, meta-models make it possible to map design-time abstractions from AO methodologies upon run-time abstractions from MAS technologies, thus promoting a more coherent and effective practice in MAS engineering. In order to validate our method, we take an AO methodology – SODA – and show how it can be mapped upon three different MAS infrastructures using meta-models as mapping guidelines.
2007
8th International Workshop “Engineering Societies in the Agents World” (ESAW’07)
283
298
From AOSE methodologies to MAS infrastructures: The SODA case study / Molesini Ambra; Denti Enrico; Omicini Andrea. - ELETTRONICO. - (2007), pp. 283-298. (Intervento presentato al convegno 8th International Workshop “Engineering Societies in the Agents World” (ESAW’07) tenutosi a Athens, Greece nel 22-24 ottobre 2007).
Molesini Ambra; Denti Enrico; Omicini Andrea
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