We propose a collection of architectural styles for multi-agent systems motivated by organizational theory and enterprise organization structures. One of the styles is discussed in detail and part of it is formalized using the Formal Tropos specification language. In addition, we conduct a comparative study of organizational and conventional software architectures using a mobile robot control e...

Architectural style classification differs from standard classification tasks due to the rich inter-class relationships between different styles, such as re-interpretation, revival, and territoriality. In this paper, we adopt Deformable Part-based Models (DPM) to capture the morphological characteristics of basic architectural components and propose Multinomial Latent Logistic Regression (MLLR)...

Architectural patterns and styles represent important design decisions and thus are valuable abstractions for architecture recovery. Recognizing them is a challenge because styles and patterns basically span several architectural elements and can be implemented in various ways depending on the problem domain and the implementation variants. Our approach uses source code structures as patterns a...

The description of run-time changing architectures cannot be limited to the specification of a unique static topology but must cover the scope of all the correct configurations. We develop, in this paper, the concept of architectural styles to achieve this goal. We elaborate and specify the basic architectural styles for the design of service-oriented applications. For this purpose we develop a...

We develop a formal approach to event-based architectures that serves two main purposes: to characterise the modularisation properties that result from the algebraic structures induced on systems by this discipline of coordination; and to further validate and extend the CommUnity approach to architectural modelling with “implicit invocation”, or “publish/subscribe” interactions. This is a first...

Architectural modelling is becoming a central problem for large, complex systems. With the advent of new technologies and user-centred concerns, the user interface portion of interactive systems is becoming increasingly large and complex. In this article, we discuss agent-based architectural styles and show how sound tradeoffs between conflicting requirements and properties can be done using th...

Architectural modelling is becoming a central problem for large, complex systems. With the advent of new technologies and user-centred concerns, the user interface portion of interactive systems is becoming increasingly large and complex. In this article, we discuss agent-based architectural styles and show how sound tradeoffs between conflicting requirements and properties can be done using th...

Over the years, research on software architecture has identified architectural styles. In this paper we consider five of such styles, and analyze whether these styles can also be found in business value models for networked enterprises. To this end, we analyze 17 evalue models, as discussed in 29 academic papers or book chapters. We also consider whether the quality attributes related to the so...

The Tropos project is developing concepts, tools and techniques for building agent-oriented software. This paper presents a quick overview of the project and then focuses on a specific problem: the identification of architectural styles for multi-agent systems (MAS). The proposed styles have been adopted from the literature on organization theory and strategic alliances. The styles are represen...