Panel Session: Development Methodologies for LargeScale MAS's

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Panel Session Development Methodologies for
Large-Scale MAS's

• Carlos José Pereira de Lucena
• SELMAS'03

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Methodologies for Multi-Agent Systems
Development the LES Approach

• Practical experience with MAS's at LES
• OOADM ? AOADM
• Research Issues
• High-Level Aspect-Oriented Design Language for
  MAS Development
• Metric Suite for Aspect-Oriented Development
  (Empirical Studies)
• Viewpoints and Goal-Driven Requirements
• The TAO Meta-model for MAS's

Software Engineering Laboratory / PUC-Rio
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Methodologies for Multi-Agent Systems
Development the LES Approach

• Platforms
• The Reflective Blackboard Architectural Pattern
• Web-Life Native Support for Management,
  Communication and Task-Oriented Behavior
• Agent-Based Framework for the Generation of
  Document Classification Tools

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Methodologies for Multi-Agent Systems
Development the LES Approach

• Method and Modeling Languages
• Engineering Multi-Agent Systems with Aspects and
  Patterns ? Extreme?
• ANote An Approach to Multi-Agent Systems Design
  Using Views
• MAS-ML A Multi-Agent System Modeling Language
  (conservative extension of UML)

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Aspects in Agent-Based Software Engineering
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ANote Modeling MAS Using Viewpoints

• Viewpoint partial specification that provides an
  abstraction of a system from a particular
  perspective.
• ANote Views
• Goal View specifies the system goals (services).
• Agent View defines the agent types that exist in
  a multi-agent system application solution, thus
  defining its structure.
• Ontology View specifies the nonagent components
  of the system environment.

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ANote Modeling MAS Using Viewpoints

• ANote Views (continued)
• Scenario View captures the agents behavior in
  specific contexts.
• Planning View specifies the execution states an
  agent perform to compute an action plan.
• Interaction View specifies the protocols of the
  messages exchanges among agents.
• System Model View defines the organizations
  (modular components) of agents.

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Relationship Among UML, TAO and MAS-ML
Four layer metadataarchitecture
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MAS-ML Extending the UML Foundation Package
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MAS-MLExtending Structural and Dynamic Diagrams

• Structural Diagrams
• Class Diagram
• AgentClass, Class and other metaclasses defined
  by UML
• Organization Diagram
• OrganizationClass, AgentClass, Class,
  AgentRoleClass and ObjectRoleClass, Environment
• Role Diagram
• AgentRoleClass and ObjectRoleClass

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MAS-MLExtending Structural and Dynamic Diagrams

• Dynamic Diagram
• Sequence Diagram
• New Icons (Agent, Organization and Environment)
• New Pathnames
• Redefinition of stereotypes
• ltltcreategtgt ltltdestroygtgt
• New stereotypes
• ltltrole_commitmentgtgt ltltrole_cancelgtgt
• ltltrole_changegtgt ltltrole_activategtgt
• ltltrole_desactivategtgt

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References

• Reference Site
• http//www.teccomm.les.inf.puc-rio.br/papers
• Choren, R. Lucena, C. "ANote A Modeling
  Language for Agent-Based Systems". ACM
  Transactions on Software Engineering and
  Methodology, 2003 (submitted for publication).
• Choren, R. Lucena, C. "An Approach to
  Multi-Agent Systems Design Using Views". IEEE
  Transactions on Software Engineering, 2003
  (submitted for publication).
• Garcia, A., Lucena, C. Cowan, D. "Agents in
  Object-Oriented Software Engineering". Software
  Practice and Experience, 2003 (to appear).

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References

• Garcia, A. et al. "Engineering Multi-Agent
  Systems with Aspects and Patterns". Journal of
  the Brazilian Computer Society, November 2002.
• Garcia, A. et al. "Agents and Objects An
  Empirical Study in the Design and Implementation
  of Multi-Agent Systems". Proceedings of the
  SELMAS'03, ICSE 2003, Portland, USA, May 2003.
• Silva, V. et al. "Taming Agents and Objects in
  Software Engineering" In Garcia, A., Lucena, C.,
  Zamboneli, F., Omicini, A. Castro, J. (Eds.)
  Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent
  Systems. Springer-Verlag, LNCS, April 2003.

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References

• Silva, V. Lucena, C. "From a Conceptual
  Framework for Agents and Objects to a Multi-Agent
  System Modeling Language", Technical Report
  CS2003-03, School of Computer Science, University
  of Waterloo, Canada, 2003 (submitted for
  publication).
• Silva, O. et al. "The Reflective Blackboard
  Pattern Architecting Large Multi-Agent Systems"
  In Garcia, A., Lucena, C., Zamboneli, F.,
  Omicini, A. Castro, J. (Eds.) Software
  Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems.
  Springer-Verlag, LNCS, April 2003.
• Magalhães, J. A. P. Lucena, C. J. P. "Using an
  Agent-Based Framework and Separation of Concerns
  for the Generation of Document Classification
  Tools", AAAI Spring Symposium/AMKM-Agent Mediated
  Knowledge Management, 2003 (to appear LNCS
  Springer).