Software Programmed by Artificial Agents toward an Autonomous Development Process for Code Generation
Carlos C. Insaurralde · 2013
Current automated software developments mostly deal with automatic code generation. This approach usually involves the software synthesis from design models, and pre-defined policies and fixed rules. This paper proposes an approach that goes beyond the above software development automation by presenting a self-directed process that is able to make decisions to develop software. An ontology-enabled agent plays the role of human developer by performing software development activities autonomously. The knowledge captured in an ontological database enables high-level reasoning to interpret, design and synthesize the system logic based on the physical system configuration. The methodology is implemented in a graphic computer tool. A case study of control software development for a distributed fuel management system for aircraft is presented. Diverse fuel systems can be easily described and the code can be generated from a visual layout. This paper describes details of the autonomous ontology-based methodology to generate software code. Some experimental results are also shown.