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Synthesis of a generic MAS metamodel

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Ghassan Beydoun,

Cesar Gonzalez-Perez,

Brian Henderson-SellersAuthors Info & Claims

SELMAS '05: Proceedings of the fourth international workshop on Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1082960.1082970

Published: 15 May 2005 Publication History

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Method engineering, which focuses on project-specific methodology construction from existing method fragments, is an appealing approach to organize, appropriately access and effectively harness the software engineering knowledge of MAS methodologies. With the objective of applying method engineering for developing an MAS, in this paper we introduce a generic metamodel to serve as a representational infrastructure to unify existing MAS methodologies into a single specification. Our metamodel does not focus on any class of MAS, nor does it impose any restrictions on the format of the system requirements; rather, our metamodel is an abstraction of how any MAS is structured and behaves both at design time and run-time.

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Synthesis of a generic MAS metamodel
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
      1. Software development methods
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Frameworks

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SELMAS '05: Proceedings of the fourth international workshop on Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems

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92 pages

ISBN:1595931163

DOI:10.1145/1082960

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 30, Issue 4
July 2005
1514 pages
ISSN:0163-5948
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