Describing Agent-Oriented Design Patterns in Tropos
Resumo
The increasing interest in software agents and multi-agent systems has recently led to the development of new methodologies based on agent concepts. The Tropos framework offers an approach to guide the development of agent-oriented systems by using concepts based on requirements engineering. In this paper, we concentrate on the detailed design and implementation phases of the Tropos approach. In particular, we outline a method for choosing and applying agent-oriented design patterns. Moreover, we discuss how agent-oriented design patterns could be properly described, and provide some means of implementing them in a particular agent environment JADE. The proposed pattern description includes a template as well as three UML extended diagrams to capture the behaviour, structure and collaboration of each pattern. By doing so, we hope to improve the understanding and usage of agent-oriented design patterns. We apply the proposal to an e-News example.
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FIPA-OS (2005) "A component-based toolkit enabling rapid development of FIPA compliant agents", http://fipa-os.sourceforge.net/, Last access in March.
Gamma, E., Helm, R., Johnson, R. and Vlissides, J. (1995) Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, Addison-Wesley.
Hayden, S., Carrick, C. and Yang, Q. (1999) "Architectural design patterns for multiagent coordination", In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Agents'99, Seattle, USA.
JACK Intelligent Agents (2005) http://www.agent-software.com/, Last access in March.
Java Technology (2005) http://www.java.sun.com/, Last access in March.
Kendall, E. A., Krishna, P. V. M., Pathak, C. V. and Suresh, C. B. (1998) "Patterns of Intelligent and Mobile Agents", In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Agents'98, St. Paul, USA, p. 92 - 99.
Kolp, M., Giorgini, P. and Mylopoulos, J. (2002) "Information Systems Development through Social Structures", In: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Ishia, Italy.
Kolp, M., Do, T. T., Faulkner, S. and Hoang, H. T. T. (2005) "Introspecting Agent Oriented Design Patterns", In: S. K. Chang (Eds), Advances in Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, vol. III, World Publishing.
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Rao, A.S. and Georgeff, M.P. (1995) "BDI agents: from theory to practice", Technical Note 56, Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute.
Rumbaugh, J., Jacobson, I. and Booch, G. (1999) The Unified Modeling Language - Reference Manual. Addison Wesley.
Tahara, Y., Ohsuga, A. and Honiden, S. (1999) "Agent system development method based on agent patterns", In: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Software Engineering, Los Angeles, California, USA, p. 356 - 367.
Woods, S. G. and Barbacci, M. (1999) "Architectural Evaluation of Collaborative Agent-Based Systems", Technical Report, CMU/SEI-99-TR-025, SEI, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
Yu, E. (1995) "Modelling Strategic Relationships for Process Reengineering". Ph.D. thesis. Department of Computer Science. University of Toronto. Canada.
Publicado
03/10/2005
Como Citar
SILVA, Carla; CASTRO, Jaelson; TEDESCO, Patrícia; SILVA, Ismênia.
Describing Agent-Oriented Design Patterns in Tropos. In: SIMPÓSIO BRASILEIRO DE ENGENHARIA DE SOFTWARE (SBES), 19. , 2005, Uberlândia/MG.
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Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2005
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p. 10-25.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbes.2005.23808.
