Agent-oriented software engineering

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

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
  ISBN 978-3642544316

• Michael Winikoff and Lin Padgham. Agent Oriented Software Engineering. Chapter 15 (pages 695-757) In G. Weiss (Ed.). Multiagent Systems. 2nd Edition. MIT Press.
  ISBN 978-0-262-01889-0
  (a recent survey of the field)
• Site of the MaCMAS methodology which is applying MAS-PL. https://web.archive.org/web/20100922120209/http://james.eii.us.es/MaCMAS/index.php/Main_Page
• MAS Product Lines site: https://web.archive.org/web/20140518122645/http://mas-productlines.org/
• Joaquin Peña, Michael G. Hinchey, and Antonio Ruiz-Cortés. Multiagent system product lines: Challenges and benefits. Communications of the ACM, December 2006, volume 49, issue number 12.
  doi:10.1145/1183236.1183272
• Peña, Joaquin; Hinchey, Michael G.; Resinas, Manuel; Sterritt, Roy; Rash, James L. (2007). "Designing and Managing Evolving Systems using a MAS-Product-Line Approach". Journal of Science of Computer Programming. 66: 71–86.
  doi:10.1016/j.scico.2006.10.007
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• Joaquin Peña, Michael G. Hinchey, Antonio Ruiz-Cortés, and Pablo Trinidad. Building the Core Architecture of a NASA Multiagent System Product Line. In 7th International Workshop on Agent Oriented Software Engineering 2006, page to be published, Hakodate, Japan, May 2006. LNCS. https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-540-70945-9_13
• Joaquin Peña, Michael G. Hinchey, Manuel Resinas, Roy Sterritt, James L. Rash. Managing the Evolution of an Enterprise Architecture using a MAS-Product-Line Approach. 5th Int. Workshop on System/Software Architectures (IWSSA’06). Nevada, USA. 2006
• Soe-Tsyr Yuan. MAS Building Environments with Product-Line-Architecture Awareness.
• Josh_Dehlinger and Robyn Lutz have several publications in this field.
• MAS-PL -- Current research. In THE FOURTH TECHNICAL FORUM (TF4) of AgentLink. December 2006.

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