From AOSE Methodologies to MAS Infrastructures: The SODA Case Study
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@talk{sodaesaw2007,
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 object-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 <i>ad hoc</i> 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.},
address = {Athens, Greece},
apice = {SodaEsaw2007},
author = {Omicini, Andrea and Molesini, Ambra},
date = {2007-10-24},
howpublished = {8th International Workshop 'Engineering Societies in the Agents World' (ESAW 2007)},
language = {en},
month = oct,
sort = {talk},
speaker = {Omicini, Andrea},
title = {From AOSE Methodologies to MAS Infrastructures: The SODA Case Study},
type = {Talk},
year = 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 object-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 <i>ad hoc</i> 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.},
address = {Athens, Greece},
apice = {SodaEsaw2007},
author = {Omicini, Andrea and Molesini, Ambra},
date = {2007-10-24},
howpublished = {8th International Workshop 'Engineering Societies in the Agents World' (ESAW 2007)},
language = {en},
month = oct,
sort = {talk},
speaker = {Omicini, Andrea},
title = {From AOSE Methodologies to MAS Infrastructures: The SODA Case Study},
type = {Talk},
year = 2007
}
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