We present how we used Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) to ease the development of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). Our study focuses on the Aalaadin MAS model. We make use of AOP at both the conceptual level of Aalaadin and the implementation level. On the conceptual level, we introduced in Aalaadin AOP concepts. It results in unifying the group concept of Aalaadin with the aspect concept. This uni...

Multi-agent systems (MAS) offer new perspectives compared to conventional, centrally organised architectures in the scope of supply chain management (SCM). Their structure inherently meets the requirements of decentralised supply chains, whereas conventional SCM systems are often restricted in terms of dynamic behaviour, handling severe disturbances at supplier sites as well as dealing with hig...

Context: A common distributed intelligent system architecture is Multi Agent Systems (MASs). Creating systems with this architecture has been recently supported by Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) methodologies. But two questions remain: how do we determine the suitability of a MAS implementation for a particular problem? And can this be determined without AOSE expertise? Objective: G...

Mobile Agent based Systems (MAS) is one of the fastest growing and emerging areas for application development in recent past. A mobile agent is a computer program that acts autonomously on behalf of a user or application moving in the heterogeneous communication environment. To ensure fault and failure free operation of mobile agent based commercial applications, reliability issues need to be a...

Multi-agent systems (MAS) architectures are gaining popularity over traditional ones for building open, distributed, and evolving software required by today’s corporate IT applications such as e-business systems, Web services, or enterprise knowledge bases. Since the fundamental concepts of multi-agent systems are social and intentional rather than object, functional, or implementationoriented,...

This work analyses the problematic of debugging a multiagent system. It starts from the fact that MAS are a particular type of distributed systems in which the active entities are autonomous in the sense that behavior and knowledge of the whole system is distributed among agents. It situates the problem by firstly studying the classical approaches for conventional code debugging and also the te...

Enterprise integration through integrated business information systems (IBIS) is necessary to achieve agility in the current age of hyper-competition. Multi-agent systems (MAS) provide a new paradigm for IBIS development. In this paper, we review the IBIS modeling and MAS literatures and find that the MAS paradigm provides an excellent approach for modeling and implementing IBIS systems. We syn...

The key role of environment as a first-class abstraction in the engineering of MAS (multi-agent systems) is today generally acknowledged in the MAS community. However, the support for the notion of environment in today AOSE (agent-oriented software engineering) methodologies is still either absent, weak, or incomplete at best. In this paper we first review, classify and compare existing AOSE me...

This paper presents the Process for Agent Specification, Simulation and Implementation (PASSIM), a simulation-based development process for Multi-agent Systems (MASs), which was obtained by integrating the well-known and established Process for Agent Societies Specification and Implementation (PASSI) methodology and a Statecharts-based simulation methodology supporting functional and nonfunctio...

In complex, open, and heterogeneous environments, agents must be able to reorganize towards the most appropriate organizations to adapt unpredictable environment changes within Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). Types of reorganization can be seen from two different levels. The individual agents level (micro-level) in which an agent changes its behaviors and interactions with other agents to adapt its ...