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Synthesis of a generic MAS metamodel

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Ghassan Beydoun,

Cesar Gonzalez-Perez,

Brian Henderson-SellersAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 30, Issue 4

Pages 1 - 5

https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082970

Published: 15 May 2005 Publication History

Abstract

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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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 30, Issue 4

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DOI:10.1145/1082983

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