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

• 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

Abstract

A major challenge for software development is to create software that is designed to evolve, reducing maintenance costs. Several approaches for multi-agent system (MAS) governance were developed, but these approaches do not provide support for systematic interaction law reuse. This paper discusses the g-framework approach for providing flexibility and reusability of MAS interaction law design and implementation. Flexibility and reuse are achieved by introducing specific add-ons to adapt the core functionalities of a g-framework thus allowing the instantiation of different applications from the same design.

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