Meta-Models, Environment and Layers: Agent-Oriented Engineering of Complex Systems
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Dottorato in Ingegneria Elettronica, Informatica e delle Telecomunicazioni
Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna
Bologna, Italy
February 2008
Traditional software engineering approaches and metaphors fall short when applied to areas of growing relevance such as electronic commerce, enterprise resource planning, and mobile computing: such areas, in fact, generally call for open architectures that may evolve dynamically over time so as to accommodate new components and meet new requirements. This thesis deals with the engineering of complex software systems in terms of the agent paradigm. This paradigm is based on the notions of agent and systems of interacting agents as fundamental abstractions for designing, developing and managing at runtime typically distributed software systems. However, today the engineer often works with technologies that do not support the abstractions used in the design of the systems. For this reason the research on methodologies becomes the basic point in the scientific activity. As a building block, the agent abstraction alone is not enough to fully model all the aspects related to multi-agent systems in a natural way. In particular, different perspectives exist on the role that environment plays within agent systems: however, it is clear at least that all non-agent elements of a multi-agent system are typically considered to be part of the multi-agent system environment. The research in these fields has lead to the formulation of a new version of the SODA methodology where environment abstractions and layering principles are exploited for engineering multi-agent systems. |
(keywords) Multi-agent Systems, Agent-oriented Software Engineering, Agent-oriented Methodologies, Environment, Infrastructures, Meta-models, Layering Principle, SODA |
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