A Metamodel and Implementation Platform for Holonic Multi-Agent Systems
Massimo Cossentino, Nicolas Gaud, Vincent Hilaire · 2007
Holonic multiagent systems oers a promising software engi- neering approach for developping applications in complex domains. How- ever the process of building MASs and HMASs is radically dierent from the process of building more traditional software systems and so intro- duces new design and development issues. Against this background, this paper introduces organization-oriented abstractions for agent-oriented software engineering. We propose a complete organizational meta-model as the basis of a future complete methodological process from require- ments to code. Besides to deal with this last aspect, we introduce our platform, called Janus, that was specically designed to implement and deploy holonic multi-agent systems.