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ASPECS
Agent-Oriented Software Process for Engineering Complex Systems
How to design agent societies under a holonic perspective
Holonic multiagent systems (HMAS) offers a promising software engineering approach for developing complex open software systems. However the process of building Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) and HMAS is mostly different from the process of building more traditional software systems and it introduces new design and development challenges. This site introduces an agent-oriented software process for engineering complex systems called ASPECS. ASPECS is based on a holonic organisational metamodel and provides a step-by-step guide from requirements to code allowing the modelling of a system at different levels of details using a suite of refinement methods. This paper details the entire ASPECS development process and provides a set of methodological guidelines for each process activity. A complete case study is also used to illustrate the methodology and to detail associated notations. ASPECS uses UML as a modelling language. Because of the specific needs of agents and holonic organisational design, the UML semantics and notation are used as reference points, but they have been extended.
Keywords: Agent Oriented Software Engineering -- Software Development Process -- Design Methodology -- Holonic Multiagent Systems -- Complex Hierarchical Systems
ASPECS reference paper
- Aspecs: an Agent-Oriented Software Process for Engineering Complex Systems - How to Design Agent Societies Under a Holonic Perspective
M. Cossentino, N. Gaud, V. Hilaire, S. Galland, and A. Koukam.
In Journal for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS). Vol. 20(2). Springer Netherlands. pp. 260-304. ISSN 1387-253. Mars, 2010.
DOI: 10.1007/s10458-009-9099-4.
ASPECS main contributors
- Massimo COSSENTINO
Email: cossentino[at]pa.icar.cnr.it - Sebastian RODRIGUEZ
Email: sebastianrodriguez[at]frt.utn.edu.ar - Stéphane GALLAND
Email: stephane.galland[at]utbm.fr - Nicolas GAUD
Email: nicolas.gaud[at]utbm.fr - Vincent HILAIRE
Email: vincent.hilaire[at]utbm.fr - Abderrafiaa KOUKAM
Email: abder.koukam[at]utbm.fr
