Experiences with software engineering of mobile agent applications

Sutandiyo, Weanna; Chhetri, Mohan Baruwal; Krishnaswamy, Shonali; Loke, Seng W.

doi:10.1109/aswec.2004.1290487

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“…Although we discuss research into procedural/dynamic aspects of agent mobility (e.g. activity diagram based approaches such as [2]), our primary focus is on models describing core mobility concepts and their inter-relationships, namely AUML [1] [6] [13], mGAIA [15], SODA [12] and MASE [14]. We provide mappings between our concepts and the mobility concepts, whether equivalent or distinct, described by these methodologies.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There is clearly a need for a holistic approach both to conceptual modeling of agent mobilityindependent of a specific methodology, toolkit, implementation, or application domain-and to evaluating the level of conceptual support offered by current mobile agent methodologies. In fact, our preliminary investigation that yielded mGAIA and aimed to extend the GAIA methodology [15] clearly demonstrated the need for a comprehensive approach that is decoupled from any specific AOSE methodology. This provides the motivation for the current research-the development of an independent and holistic ontology describing agent mobility concepts, where an ontology can be defined in the information technology context as a domain-specific world view whose essentials are articulated either formally or informally in terms of a set of concepts, their definitions, and their inter-relationships [16].…”

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“…That is, with the increasing uptake of this technology, it is essential to provide strategies for formal analysis and design of these applications. However, mobile agent applications have received only minimal attention thus far in research reported in the area of AOSE methodologies [1] [12] [14] [15]. While these research projects take a step in the direction of conceptual modeling of mobile agent applications, they are still constrained by retention of a specific frame of reference or context as follows:…”

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Ontology-Based Agent Mobility Modelling

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Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'06)

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There is increasing recognition of the potential benefits of mobile agent technology for distributed and mobile applications. However, thus far there has been only very limited consideration of the specific requirements for conceptual level modeling of agent mobility to support analysis and design of such applications. Furthermore, the fragmented nature and inconsistent terminology characterizing such research to date complicates the effort to understand and compare the work. An ontology describing the abstract concepts and interrelationships required to model agent mobility is presented in this paper, intended to serve as the necessary first step to providing conceptual level support for mobile agent applications and as a cogent means of comparing existing work in the area.

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Ontology-Based Agent Mobility Modelling

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“…More recently, the product-line engineering approach has been adopted to take advantage of core commonalities shared among a set of closely related software applications to maximize the potential for reuse [2]. Agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) [19] methodologies surfaced in the mid-to-late 90's to provide tools and techniques for modeling, analyzing and designing agent-based software systems early in the development lifecycle [15]. From its onset, one of the main goals of AOSE was to provide methodologies for reusing and maintaining agent-based software systems [17].…”

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A product-line requirements approach to safe reuse in multi-agent systems

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2005

Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems - SELMAS '05

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The dynamic nature of highly autonomous agents within distributed systems is difficult to specify with existing requirements techniques. However, capturing the possibly shifting configurations of agents in the requirements specification is essential for safe reuse of agents. The contribution of this work is an extensible agent-oriented requirements specification template for distributed systems that supports safe reuse. We make two basic claims for this idea. First, by adopting a product-line-like approach, it exploits component reuse during system evolution. Second, the template allows ready integration with an existing tool-supported, safety analysis technique sensitive to dynamic variations within the components (i.e., agents) of a system. To illustrate these claims, we apply the requirements specification template and safety analysis to a real-world context-aware, distributed satellite system.

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“…Agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) [19] methodologies surfaced in the mid-to-late 90's to provide tools and techniques for modeling, analyzing and designing agent-based software systems early in the development lifecycle [15]. From its onset, one of the main goals of AOSE was to provide methodologies for reusing and maintaining agent-based software systems [17].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%