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CW 2011_17
Elke Steegmans
Role-based modeling for multi-agent systems
October 31, 2011
Advisor(s): Yolande Berbers and Tom Holvoet
Abstract
Today, the trend in software is to build bigger and complex software systems. Dealing with the increasing complexity of developing, integrating and managing open distributed applications is a continuous challenge for software engineers. In the last fifteen years, multi-agent systems have been put forward as one of the paradigms to tackle the complexity of open distributed applications. Since a few years, the research on multi-agent systems started to focus on software engineering for multi- agent systems, known under the term Agent-Oriented Software Engineering. In the context of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, already a number of agent- oriented methodologies have been proposed and within some of them role modeling plays an important role.The focus of this dissertation is on modeling support for the development of multi-agent systems, and more in particular on suitable abstractions and models together with a suitable modeling language to design a multi-agent system in the architectural design phase of the software development process. The goal of this dissertation is twofold: (1) to offer proper modeling support for designing a situated multi-agent system by increasing the level of abstraction to design such a multi-agent system and by bridging the gap between architectural design, detailed design and implementation of situated agent architectures, and (2) to increase the reuse of multi-agent system models in different applications.
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