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International Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-agent Systems

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Architecting the Design of Multi-agent Organizations with Proto-frameworks

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The popularity of multi-agent systems (MAS) is on the rise. However, the provision of guidelines to assist the developer to manage both agency and organizational concerns, so that these concerns can be mapped to framework implementations, is still a technically difficult task. In this context, this work describes a design approach based on the notion of proto-frameworks, which proposes the materialization of MAS architectural models into object-oriented structures, enabling then different implementation alternatives for MAS frameworks according to specific developer’s needs.

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  1. ISISTAN Research Institute, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, UNICEN University, Campus Universitario, Paraje Arroyo Seco, B7001BBO, Tandil, Argentina

    Andrés Díaz Pace, Marcelo Campo & Alvaro Soria

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  2. Computer Science Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rua Marques de Sao Vicente, 225, 22453-900, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

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  3. Computer Science School, Newcastle University, UK

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  4. Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil

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Díaz Pace, A., Campo, M., Soria, A. (2004). Architecting the Design of Multi-agent Organizations with Proto-frameworks. In: Lucena, C., Garcia, A., Romanovsky, A., Castro, J., Alencar, P.S.C. (eds) Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems II. SELMAS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2940. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24625-1_5

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