An Experience in Using Components for a Modular Construction of Agents for Agent-based Simulations
Resumo
Este artigo resume nossa experiência de uso de um modelo de componente para conceber e construir agentes para simulações baseadas em agentes. Neste modelo, chamado MALEVA, os componentes encapsulam varias unidades de comportamento de agentes (por ex: seguir um gradiente, fugir, morrer, reproduzir... ). Entre suas especificidades, o modelo expande os princípios de composição de software para especificação do controle por meio de portas e componentes de controle. A noção de componente composto permite construir comportamentos complexos, a partir de outros mais simples. Alguns exemplos ilustram a capacidade do modelo em facilitar a construção progressiva de comportamentos de agentes e seu suporte a várias formas de reutilização potencial. Nós discutimos também os benefícios do modelo para um controle refinado de ativação e de ordenamento.
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Briot, J.-P., Meurisse, T. and Peschanski, F. (2007) Architectural Design of Component-based Agents: a Behavior-based Approach, Programming MultiAgent Systems ProMAS 2006, No 441, LNCS, Springer, pp. 73–92.
Brooks, R.A. (1986) A Robust Layered Control System for a Mobile Robot, IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation, 2(1):14–23, March.
Bruneton, E., Coupaye, T., Leclerc, M., Quema, V. and Stefani, J.-B. (2004) An Open Component Model and its Support in Java, Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE’2004), No 3054, LNCS, Springer, pp. 7–22,
Cho, Y.I. and Kim, T.G. (2002) DEVS Framework for Componentbased Modeling/Simulation of Discrete Event Systems, The 2002 Summer Computer Simulation Conference, San Diego, CA, USA.
DeLoach, S.A. (1999) Multiagent Systems Engineering: A Methodology and Language for Designing Agent Systems, Agent-Oriented Information Systems (AOIS’99), Seattle, WA, USA, May.
Drogoul, A., Corbara, B. and Fresneau, D. (1995) MANTA: Experimental Results on the Emergence of (Artificial) Ant Societies, Artificial Societies: the Computer Simulation of Social Life, UCL Press, London, U.K.
Ferber, J. (1999) Multi-Agent Systems: An Introduction to Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Addison-Wesley.
Gamma, E., Helm, R., Johnson, R. and Vlissides, J. (1995) Design Patterns Elements of Reusable Object Oriented Software, Addison-Wesley.
Garcia, A., Kulesza, U. and Lucena, C. (2004) Aspectizing MultiAgent Systems: From Architecture to Implementation, Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems III, No 3390, LNCS, Springer, pp. 121–143.
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Goradia, H.J. and Vidal, J.M. (2003) Building Blocks for Agent Design, Agent-Oriented Software Engineering IV, No 2935, LNCS, Springer, pp. 153-166.
Grondin, G., Bouraqadi, N. and Vercouter, L. (2006) MaDcAr: an Abstract Model for Dynamic and Automatic (Re-)Assembling of ComponentBased Applications, Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE’2006), No 4063, LNCS, Springer, pp. 360–367.
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Lawson, B.G. and Park, S. (2000) Asynchronous Time Evolution in an Artificial Society Mode, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 3(1).
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Marca, D.A. and McGowan, C.L. (1987) SADT Structured Analysis and Design Technics, McGraw-Hill.
Melo, F., Choren, R., Cerqueira, R., Lucena, C. and Blois, M. (2004) Deploying Agents with the CORBA Component Model, 2nd International Conference on Component Deployment (CD’2004), No 3083, LNCS, Springer, May, pp. 234–247.
Meurisse, T. (2004) Simulation multi-agent : du modele a l’operationnalisation, These de doctorat (PhD thesis), Universite Paris 6, France, July.
Milner, R. (1982) A Calculus for Communicating Systems, Springer.
Object Management Group (2007) Corba Component Model (CCM), "http://www.omg.org/technology/documents/formal/components.htm".
Shaw, M. and Garlan, D. (1996) Software Architectures: Perspective on an Emerging Discipline, Prentice Hall.
Sichman, J.S. and Antunes, L. (Eds.) (2006) Multi-AgentBased Simulation VI, No 3891, LNAI, Springer.
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Zeigler, B.P. (1985) Discrete Event Simulation Formalism for Model based Distributed Simulation, 1985 SCS MultiConference: Distributed Simulation, San Diego, CA, USA, January, pp. 3–7.
Publicado
15/10/2007
Como Citar
BRIOT, Jean-Pierre; MEURISSE, Thomas; PESCHANSKI, Frédéric.
An Experience in Using Components for a Modular Construction of Agents for Agent-based Simulations. In: SIMPÓSIO BRASILEIRO DE ENGENHARIA DE SOFTWARE (SBES), 21. , 2007, João Pessoa.
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Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2007
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p. 93-109.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbes.2007.21301.
