Documenting and Modeling Multi-agent Systems Product Lines.
Ingrid Nunes, Uirá Kulesza, Camila Da Silva Nunes, Carlos J. P. de Lucena · Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering · 2008
In this paper, we explore the use of existing software product line (SPL) approaches to document and model a multiagent system product line (MAS-PL). Our analysis focuses specifically in the domain analysis and design stages of SPL development. The main aim of our study is to investigate the benefits, limitations and challenges of current SPL and MAS-PL approaches/methodologies to document and model MAS-PL features. Our investigation is illustrated and validated through the use of a web-based conference management system. As a result of our study, we propose the adaptation and extension of existing approaches to address the modeling of MAS-PL features.