Uma Abordagem para o Reuso de Leis de Interação em Sistemas Multi-Agentes

Gustavo Robichez de Carvalho; Ricardo Choren; Rodrigo Paes; Carlos Lucena

doi:10.5753/sbes.2007.21300

Gustavo Robichez de Carvalho PUC-Rio
Ricardo Choren IME
Rodrigo Paes PUC-Rio
Carlos Lucena PUC-Rio

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbes.2007.21300

Resumo

Um dos desafios de desenvolvimento de software é produzir aplicativos que são projetados para evoluir reduzindo esforços de manutenção. Diversas técnicas desenvolvidas para a governança de leis de interação em sistemas multi-agentes (SMAs) foram desenvolvidas, no entanto a flexibilidade e a reutilização de leis não ocorriam de forma sistemática. Este artigo apresenta a técnica, proposta pelos autores, para a documentação de g-frameworks, um mecanismo para promover a flexibilidade e a reutilização de projetos e de implementações de leis de interação em SMAs. Esta flexibilidade é obtida através da introdução de incrementos específicos que as instâncias em desenvolvimento requerem, de modo a completar e adaptar as funcionalidades originais do g-framework. A reutilização vem justamente do re-aproveitamento de um mesmo projeto e código de lei de interação em instâncias geradas a partir do g-framework.

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