Towards an MDE Methodology to Develop Multi-Agents Systems including Mobile Agents

Tahar Gherbi, Isabelle Borne, Djamel Meslati

2013

Abstract

There is a need for agent oriented software engineering methodologies that support the conceptual modeling of mobile-agents systems. For this reason, we have presented in a previous work, our meta-model to design multi-agents systems including mobile agents and we have discussed it versus some formalisms extending UML for mobile-agents modeling. The proposed meta-model serves as a platform independent meta-model in our model-driven engineering approach under elaboration as a methodology for the development of multi-agents systems including mobile-agents. This paper summarizes the different approaches for mobile-agent modeling and situates our meta-model particularly versus three works supporting mobility by extending a multi-agents systems methodology (MaSE, GAIA, and AALAADIN). It aims to justify the choices that have guided our meta-model construction.

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Gherbi T., Borne I. and Meslati D. (2013). Towards an MDE Methodology to Develop Multi-Agents Systems including Mobile Agents . In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-8565-62-4, pages 45-55. DOI: 10.5220/0004420200450055


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@conference{enase13,
author={Tahar Gherbi and Isabelle Borne and Djamel Meslati},
title={Towards an MDE Methodology to Develop Multi-Agents Systems including Mobile Agents},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2013},
pages={45-55},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004420200450055},
isbn={978-989-8565-62-4},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - Towards an MDE Methodology to Develop Multi-Agents Systems including Mobile Agents
SN - 978-989-8565-62-4
AU - Gherbi T.
AU - Borne I.
AU - Meslati D.
PY - 2013
SP - 45
EP - 55
DO - 10.5220/0004420200450055