Multi-agent System Product Lines (MAS-PLs) are the integration of two promising technologies: Multi-agent Systems (MASs), which provides a powerful abstraction to model features with autonomous and pro-active behavior, and Software Product Lines (SPLs), whose aim is to reduce both time-to-market and costs in the development of system families by the exploitation of commonalities among family me...

This paper examines the potential value of MAS technology to continuously improve enterprise capability to gain the highest performance level. In terms of contribution, it describes concepts and methodologies within the field of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) that are appropriate to work with required performance levels. As well as presenting a comprehensive review of the meaningful framework for wh...

The necessity of a methodology for developing multi-agent systems (MAS) has been widely recognized due to the difficulties in analysis, specification, design, implementation and testing the autonomous and collaborative behaviours of such systems. This paper presents CAMLE – a caste-centric agent modeling language and environment. The methodology underlying the language and environment is based ...

In this paper, a new method for the agentification of production systems within the development of Multi-Agent-Systems (MAS) is presented.

The multi-agent systems (MAS) paradigm provides an interesting alternative for the design of ambient intelligence (AmI) systems. However, the verification of the resulting MAS and their constituent agents still requires a suitable model that meets AmI systems requirements. The HoA model presented in this paper, aims at representing the mental evolution of a BDI agent, in order to be handled in ...

Agent orientation is believed as an appropriate and powerful paradigm to develop complex systems. In order to engineer complex self-adaptive multi-agent systems, we present dynamic binding mechanism and an agentoriented methodology called ODAM that exploits the flexibility and high-level abstraction of agent orientation based on organization metaphors. The metamodel and modeling language of ODA...

In this paper, a new method for the agentification of production systems within the development of Multi-Agent-Systems (MAS) is presented.

This paper introduces the notion of artifact as a first-class abstraction in MASs (multi-agent systems) and focuses on its impact onion in MASs (multi-agent systems) and focuses on its impact on MAS programming. Artifacts are runtime devices providing some kind of function or service which agents can fruitfully use – both individually and collectively – to achieve their individual as well as so...

Multi-agent systems(MAS) are typical distributed systems. To model such a distributed system, a new definition and architecture for agent is proposed to be more appropriate for dynamic, open system’s analysis, design and implementation. The formal specification of these concepts is described. A MAS modelling methodology RoMAS based on these definitions is presented through RoboCup simulation fo...

In this work, we propose a novel probabilistic modeling language PML-MAS to capture the stochastic characteristics of multi-agent systems (MASs). Moreover, we design a model checking framework for MAS, which is highly extensible. It provides powerful modeling editor, interactive simulator and automatic verifier for MASs. In addition, it can support various MAS model languages via extracting the...