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Enhancing agent-oriented models with aspects

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Alessandro Garcia,

Christina Chavez,

Ricardo ChorenAuthors Info & Claims

AAMAS '06: Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems

Pages 1332 - 1334

https://doi.org/10.1145/1160633.1160881

Published: 08 May 2006 Publication History

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The modular representation of concerns is imperative in the design modeling of multi-agent systems (MASs). However, MAS designers typically face a number of concerns that inherently affect several system agents and their respective internal elements, such as actions and goals. These crosscutting concerns encompass both internal and systemic properties, such as learning, mobility, error handling, and security. Without an explicit modeling of such MAS properties, designers can not properly communicate and reason about them and their broadly-scoped effects. The result is a multitude of agent-oriented design breakdowns: poor traceability from requirements to design models, hindering of reuse opportunities, and decreased evolvability. This paper presents an enhancement of an existing agent-oriented modeling language with aspects. We illustrate the use of our approach through some classical examples of crosscutting concerns in agent-oriented design models.

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AAMAS '06: Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems

May 2006

1631 pages

ISBN:1595933034

DOI:10.1145/1160633

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Hideyuki Nakashima
Future University - Hakodate, Japan
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University of Michigan
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Gerhard Weiss
Technical University Munich, Germany
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The University of Texas at Austin

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