Agent-oriented software engineering

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Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) is a new software engineering

Software Product Lines (SPL) covers all the software
development lifecycle necessary to develop a family of products where the derivation of concrete products is made systematically and rapidly.

Commentary

With the advent of biologically inspired, pervasive, and autonomic computing, the advantages of, and necessity of, agent-based technologies and MASs has become obvious[citation needed]. Unfortunately, current AOSE methodologies are dedicated to developing single MASs. Clearly, many MASs will make use of significantly the same techniques, adaptations, and approaches. The field is thus ripe for exploiting the benefits of SPL: reduced costs, improved time-to-market, etc. and enhancing agent technology in such a way that it is more industrially applicable.

Multiagent Systems Product Lines (MAS-PL) is a research field devoted to combining the two approaches: applying the SPL philosophy for building a MAS. This will afford all of the advantages of SPLs and make MAS development more practical.

External Links

  • Agent-Oriented Software Engineering: Reflections on Architectures, Methodologies, Languages, and Frameworks


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